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Elena Kagan (born April 28, 1960)[1] is the Solicitor General of the United States. She is the first woman to hold that office, having been nominated by then President-elect Barack Obama on January 5, 2009, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 19, 2009. Kagan was formerly dean of Harvard Law School and Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law at Harvard University. She was previously a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School. She served as Associate White House Counsel under President Bill Clinton.
Kagan was born in New York City. After graduating from Hunter College High School in 1977, Kagan earned an A.B. (summa cum laude) from Princeton University in 1981, an M. Phil. from Worcester College, Oxford University, in 1983, and a J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School in 1986. She was supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review.
She was a law clerk for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court.
In private practice, Kagan was an associate at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Williams & Connolly.[1]
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