Elena Kagan (/ ˈ k eɪ ɡ ə n / KAY-guhn; born April 28, 1960) is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was appointed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and is the fourth woman to serve on the Court.

Apr 8, 2022 · The justice whom Jackson will replace, Stephen Breyer, is Jewish, as is Elena Kagan, who remains on the court. The remaining six justices -- John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia...

Sep 13, 2018 · Though Kagan had her bat mitzvah at that Modern Orthodox synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, she did not grow up in a strictly observant household, the associate justice told an audience...

Aug 7, 2010 · In 2001, she was given full professor status, but Kagan climbed so far and so quickly up the ladder that she became the dean of Harvard Law School in 2003, a mere two years later. She served as the dean for five years before a second president called upon her legal mind.

Jul 15, 2022 · With five, maybe six, Catholic conservative justices and one Catholic liberal justice (Sonia Sotomayor), seven out of nine justices are of the same religion. Justice Elena Kagan is Jewish and new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has said she is a nondenominational Protestant.

Sep 14, 2018 · NEW YORK (JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, appearing at a Jewish day school in Brooklyn Wednesday evening, spoke about her Jewish background and how her family jumped from synagogue to...

Jun 23, 2021 · Elena Kagan, the second Jewish woman to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was appointed by President Barack Obama after a distinguished government and academic career.

Elena Kagan is a Jewish American judge and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Kagan was born in New York, New York , on April 28, 1960. Kagan attended the Lincoln Square Synagogue growing up and became a bat-Mitzvah in an unusual Friday night ceremony.

Sep 13, 2018 · Though Kagan had her bat mitzvah at that Modern Orthodox synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, she did not grow up in a strictly observant household, the associate justice told an audience...

Kagan was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama in 2010, becoming its eighth Jewish and fourth female Justice. Kagan’s Jewish identity. Kagan had what she described as a “strange” Jewish upbringing on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Her family was involved in multiple synagogues before ultimately choosing the Orthodox ...