<p>Kagan</a> confirmed as Supreme Court justice - Politics - Supreme Court - msnbc.com</p>
<p>"WASHINGTON The Senate has confirmed Elena Kagan to be the fourth woman ever to serve as a Supreme Court justice. </p>
<p>The Senate approved President Barack Obama's nominee Thursday. Kagan's addition to the court marks the first time three female justices have served concurrently.</p>
<p>Nearly all Democrats, the Senate's two independents, and a handful of Republicans backed her. . . . (continued)"</p>
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<p>There is another first here as well. This is the first time in U.S. history (I believe) that there have been three sitting justices who all did their undergraduate work at the same university. Interestingly, there will be a great diversity of opinion among them.</p>
<p>Solicitor General, Elena Kagan '81 graduated summa cum laude from Princeton, took a masters degree at Oxford and then graduated from Harvard Law School. As the article notes, Kagan was Dean of Harvard Law School prior to becoming the nation's first female Solicitor General.</p>
<p>Kagan is now the 12th Supreme Court Justice to have received an undergraduate degree from Princeton. In the new court there will be three Princeton undergraduate alumni, two Stanford undergraduate alumni and one each from Harvard, Cornell, Georgetown and the Conception Seminary College.</p>
<p>Princeton has graduated more U.S. Supreme Court Justices than any other undergraduate institution in U.S. history. The second leading institutions are Harvard College and Yale College each of which has graduated ten even while both schools are substantially larger. </p>
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