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Elena Kagan, an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 2010, is widely considered a centrist. She was born on the Upper West Side of New York City and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1981, majoring in history. She received a scholarship from Princeton that allowed her to study at Worcester College in Oxford, where she obtained an M.A. in politics in 1983. Kagan graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1986. She began her legal career as a law clerk, first on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and then for Justice Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court.