Justice elena kagan biography

Supreme Court, Elena Kagan is a prominent legal scholar and jurist who has advocated for justice and equality since childhood.

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A top student at her Hebrew school, she strongly desired to mark her coming of age with a bat mitzvah when she was 12 years old. However, her Orthodox synagogue had never held a bat mitzvah, as only boys were allowed to observe their bar mitzvahs in the Orthodox tradition at the time. Jewish girls were just beginning to celebrate bat mitzvahs in the early s, mostly in Reform and Conservative Jewish synagogues, and Kagan advocated for the same opportunity as her male peers.

Kagan went to Hunter College High School, where she served as the president of the student government. After graduating in , Kagan attended Princeton University. She studied history and served as the editorial chair of The Daily Princetonian , the campus newspaper. Kagan graduated summa cum laude in and earned a fellowship from Princeton to study philosophy at Worcester College part of Oxford University in England.

She received her M. Phil degree in After her studies at Oxford, Kagan began law school at Harvard.