Supreme+Court+Nominee+Kagan

. On May 10, 2010, President Obama [|nominated] Kagan to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy from 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. SOURCE: Wikipedia. May 11, 2010
 * Elena Kagan** (pronounced [|/ˈkeɪɡən/] ; born April 28, 1960)[|[1]] is the [|Solicitor General of the United States] and President [|Barack Obama]'s nominee to become the 112th Justice of the [|U.S. Supreme Court]. She is the first female Solicitor General, having been nominated by [|President Obama] on January 26, 2009, and confirmed by the [|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].


 * Class List of Topic Concerns** regarding Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court