Elena Kagan

What strikes me about Elena Kagan is not the milestone of being the fourth woman on the Supreme Court, but the texture of her mind. She climbed from a New York City upbringing through Princeton and the deanship of Harvard Law to the highest bench in the land, yet what I find most compelling is her work as a dissenter. On a Court where she often sits in the minority, her opinions are famous for their clarity, wit, and refusal to dodge the hard logic. I admire a jurist who can lose the vote and still win the argument on the page, and Kagan does that with unusual force.

Name (English)

Elena Kagan

Name (Japanese)

エレナ・ケイガン

Reading

えれな・けいがん

Born

April 28, 1960 (age 66)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rat

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

judge / lawyer / university teacher / academic administrator / jurist

High school

Hunter College High School

University

Princeton University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena%20Kagan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11105

Tags

• New York
• judge
• lawyer
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-17

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