Elena Kagan

Elena Kagan. Self: Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP. Elena Kagan serves on the United States Supreme Court. She grew up in a middle class family in New York City, the middle child and only daughter of Robert Kagan, an attorney, and Gloria Gittelman Kagan, an elementary school teacher. Living in a third-floor apartment in Manhattan, her family emphasized the value of education and the law. She was...