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Justice Elena Kagan joined the U. After graduating from the prestigious Hunter College High School, where she served as president of the student government, Kagan attended Princeton University.

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She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton in , majoring in history. Due to receiving a graduating scholarship from Princeton, Kagan continued her studies at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. She received a degree in politics from Oxford in Kagan then attended Harvard Law School, where she served as a supervisory editor of the Harvard Law Review and ultimately graduated magna cum laude in Like many of her colleagues on the Supreme Court, Kagan started her legal career with clerkships in federal courts.

First, she clerked on the U. Kagan briefly practiced law at a private firm before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago Law School in She received tenure in Although Clinton nominated her to the D. Circuit in , the Senate Judiciary Committee declined to schedule a hearing on her nomination, so it eventually lapsed.