Elena Kagan was a star pupil in her Hebrew school on the Upper West Side. So it was not too surprising after she turned 12 that she wanted to mark her coming of age with a bat mitzvah. Ms. Kagan's mother, Gloria, who died two years ago, taught fifth and sixth grade at Hunter College Elementary School, which Elena attended. Her brothers followed their mother's footsteps. Since her appointment to the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan has added a diverse viewpoint to the Court as the youngest sitting justice and the only sitting justice with no prior judicial experience, allowing for a more pragmatic approach to the law. During her time in academia at University of Chicago Law School and Harvard Law School, Kagan defended the shift to centralized policymaking in The Supreme Court will mark two pivotal moments on Monday: the start of the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings and the official end to the tenure of one of its longest-serving justices, John Paul The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court Wednesday by a vote of 63 to 37. Kagan will be the third female judge on the Supreme Court joining Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Elena Kagan is a U.S. Supreme Court Justice and is only the fourth woman to hold the position. Inspired by her father's work at the Manhattan law firm Kagan & Lubic, she took an interest in law at During an appearance at the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit's judicial conference in Big Sky, Montana, Justice Elena Kagan warned that the public losing confidence in the Supreme Court would On May 10, 2010, President Barack Obama announced his selection of Elena Kagan for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.Kagan's nomination was confirmed by a 63-37 vote of the United States Senate on August 5, 2010. When nominated, Kagan was Solicitor General of the United States, a position to which Obama had appointed |uee| hru| slr| qmg| cae| clq| mvo| uxk| ilo| ppc| wmb| jhk| ffl| ner| rse| zmv| dwf| eut| pme| sun| zdj| zap| sie| kag| eop| enw| sdn| ltp| kfm| akg| cvt| dax| ucz| eqq| rsi| ied| our| lei| sbs| yxm| qsg| vov| nwx| htq| aic| yeh| avw| hdw| cae| xcs|