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By JOSH GERSTEIN
Politico.com
May 10, 2010
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will announce Monday that he has selected Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his second nominee to the Supreme Court, according to an administration official.
If confirmed, the former Harvard Law School dean would be the first justice to join the court without prior judicial experience since William Rehnquist nearly four decades ago.
Kagan would be the third woman on the nine-member court and only the fourth woman among 112 justices ever to serve, following Obama’s choice of Justice Sonia Sotomayor last year. She would replace Justice John Paul Stevens, who is retiring after 35 years.
At 50, Kagan is among the youngest of the potential nominees who were widely thought to have been seriously considered by Obama for the high court slot.
Kagan has a lengthy pedigree as a Democratic attorney. She served for several years as the deputy director of domestic policy under President Bill Clinton and earlier as an attorney in the White House counsel’s office. She made history by serving for six years as the first female dean of Harvard Law, where Obama had attended years earlier.
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