ELENA KAGAN
Elena Kagan was born on April 28,1960 in New York City. Inspired by her father's work at the Manhattan law firm of Kagan& Lubic, Elena took an interest in law at an early age. Having attended Princeton, Oxford, and Harvard, and a varied career in law, in 2009 Elena became the first female to serve as solicitor general of the United States, and the fourth female elected into the Supreme Court. Born April 28, 1960, in New York City to parents Gloria and Robert Kagan. Kagan grew up as the second of three children in a middle class Jewish family living on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Kagan's mother was an educator, teaching students at Hunter College Elementary School. Her father worked as a longtime partner at the Manhattan law firm of Kagan & Lubic, working with tenant associations. Inspired by her father's work, Elena took an interest in law at an early age. Kagan was nominated by President Barack Obama to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court bench after his retirement. If confirmed, Kagan would become the fourth woman to sit on the high court. Kagan, 50, would also be the youngest member of the current court, as well as the only justice on the bench who has no previous judicial experience. In addition, her approval would put three female justices on the country's highest court for the first time in U.S. history.