Elena Kagan

• A.B., Princeton University, 1981
• M.Phil., University of Oxford, Worcester College, 1983
• J.D., Harvard Law School, 1986

• Law clerk, Hon. Abner Mikva, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1986-1987
• Law clerk, Hon. Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court of the United States, 1987-1988
• Private practice, Washington, D.C., 1989-1991
• Faculty, University of Chicago Law School, 1991-1997
• assistant professor, 1991-1994
• professor, 1994-1997
• Special counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 1993
• Associate counsel, President William J. Clinton, 1995-1996
• Deputy assistant for domestic policy and deputy director of the domestic policy council, Executive Office of the President, 1997-1999
• Faculty, Harvard Law School, 1999-2010
• visiting professor, 1999-2001
• professor, 2001-2010
• dean, 2003-2009
• Solicitor general of the United States, 2009-2010

Nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, June 17, 1999; no Senate vote