Elena Kagan

Family

EDUCATION

JD, Harvard Law School, 1986
MPhil, Worcester College, Oxford University, 1983
AB, Princeton University, 1981

POLITICAL EXPERIENCE

COMMITTEES

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, 2010-present
Nominated by President Barack Obama, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, May 10, 2010
Confirmed by the United States Senate, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, August 5, 2010
Solicitor General, United States Department of Justice, 2009-2010
Dean, Harvard Law School, 2003-2009
Nominated by President Barack Obama, Solicitor General, United States Department of Justice, January 26, 2009
Professor, Harvard Law School, 2001-present
Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, 1999-2001
Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, Executive Office of the President, 1997-1999
Nominated, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, June 17, 1999
Professor, University of Chicago Law School, 1991-1997
Associate Counsel to the President, Executive Office of the President, 1995-1996
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Law School, 1991-1994
Special Counsel, United States Senate Judiciary Committee, 1993
Associate, Williams and Colmolly, 1989-1991
Law Clerk, Honorable Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court, 1987-1988
Law Clerk, Honorable Abner Mikva, United States Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit, 1986-1987
Research Assistant, Professor Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School, 1986
Summer Associate, Paul Weiss Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, 1985
Summer Associate, Fried Frank Harris Shriver and Jacobson, 1984
Paralegal, Milbank Tweed Hadley and McCloy, 1983

RELIGIOUS, CIVIC, AND OTHER MEMBERSHIPS

Member, Princeton University Alumni Association, present
Member, Harvard Law School Alumni Association, present
Member, American Bar Association, present
Member, Board of Directors, Equal Justice Works, 2008-present
Member, Board of Trustees, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2008-present
Member, Research Advisory Council, Goldman Sachs Global Markets Institute, 2005-2008
Member, Advisory Board, American Indian Empowerment Fund, 2008
Member, New York State Commission on Higher Education, 2007-2008
Member, Board of Directors, The Advantage Testing Foundation, 2007-present
Member, Board of Advisors, National Constitution Center's Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution, 2006-present
Member, Board of Directors, Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, 2003-2005
Member, Board of Directors, American Law Deans Association, 2004-present
Member, Board of Trustees, Skadden Fellowship Foundation, 2003-present
Member, Litigation Committee, American Association of University Professors, 2002-2003
Member, Board of Governors, Chicago Council of Lawyers, 1993-1995
Public Member, Administrative Conference of the United States, 1994-1995
Staff Member, Dukakis for President Campaign, 1988
Former Member, Boston Bar Association Diversity Task Force