U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Kagan to engage in wide-ranging conversation with law school Dean Perdue

Elena Kagan, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, will visit the University of Richmond School of Law Sept. 20, 3 p.m., for a wide-ranging conversation with Dean Wendy Perdue before an audience of law students, faculty and invited guests.

President Barack Obama appointed Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010. She had been serving as the 45th solicitor general of the United States.

Kagan was born in New York, N.Y. She received her bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, her master of philosophy degree as a Daniel M. Sachs Graduating Fellow at Worcester College at Oxford University, and her law degree from Harvard Law School.

Early in her career, she served as a law clerk to Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and then as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She was an associate in a Washington, D.C., law firm. She has been a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and a professor and the dean at Harvard Law School. She was associate counsel to President Bill Clinton and then served as deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy and deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council. 

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