Supreme Court · Associate Justice
Elena Kagan
Democratic appointee: Appointed by Barack Obama (D)
Served 2010–present · 15 terms
Confirmed 63–37
Biography
Elena Kagan is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was appointed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and is the fourth woman to serve on the Court.
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Ideology over time
Kagan and the 12 justices who overlapped with Kagan, 2010–present
- Elena Kagan
- 95% credible interval
- Peer, appointed by a Democrat
- Peer, appointed by a Republican
- Court median
How to read this
Martin–Quinn scores place each justice on a single liberal–conservative dimension, estimated from their votes across terms, with scores allowed to shift from one term to the next. Higher is more conservative. The shaded band is the credible interval: wider when the record is thin, especially in a justice’s first terms, and narrower as votes accumulate.
Where Kagan sits among all justices
Career average, every justice in the data set
Kagan’s range across terms
Served alongside Kagan
12 justicesClosest career average first. Filled dot: the peer. Ring: Kagan.
How Kagan voted
Every argued case Kagan took part in, newest first, with how Kagan voted in each: with the majority, in dissent, or in an equally divided Court. A Liberal or Conservative tag is the Supreme Court Database’s coding of who prevailed in the case, not a rating of the justices.
Data notes
The Decisions page’s argued cases with this justice’s vote from the Supreme Court Database. “Majority” includes a concurrence; a vote that dissented in part is coded by the side the justice took overall. Cases the justice sat out and equally divided cases are left out of the percentages. “Wrote” means authored an opinion. Source: Supreme Court Database (Spaeth et al.).