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Elena Kagan (pronounced /ˈkeɪɡən/; born April 28, 1960)[1] is President Barack Obama's nominee to become the 112th Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Kagan currently serves as Solicitor General of the United States. She is the first woman to hold the office of Solicitor General, having been nominated by President Obama on January 26, 2009, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 19, 2009. Kagan was formerly dean of Harvard Law School and Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law at Harvard University. She had also been a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School. During the administration of President Bill Clinton, Kagan served as Associate White House Counsel.
On May 10, 2010, President Obama nominated Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court, filling the vacancy created by the impending retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens at the end of the Supreme Court's 2009–2010 term.[2][3] If confirmed, she would become the fourth female justice in the Supreme Court's history, and the third on the current bench. She would also become the eighth Jewish justice in the Supreme Court's history, and the third on the current bench.