elena kagan is the current member of the supreme court who was once the solicitor general.
elena kagan is the current member of the supreme court who was once the solicitor general.
what current member of the supreme court was once the solicitor general?
elena kagan
other than the justices themselves, the solicitor general is among the most influential and knowledgeable members of the legal community with regard to supreme court litigation. six solicitors general have later served on the supreme court: william howard taft (who served as the 27th president of the united states before becoming chief justice of the united states), stanley forman reed, robert h. jackson, thurgood marshall, and elena kagan. some who have had other positions in the office of the solicitor general have also later been appointed to the supreme court. for example, chief justice john roberts was the principal deputy solicitor general during the george h. w. bush administration and associate justice samuel alito was an assistant to the solicitor general. the last former solicitor general to be successfully nominated to the court was justice elena kagan. only one former solicitor general has been nominated to the supreme court unsuccessfully, that being robert bork; however, no sitting solicitor general has ever been denied such an appointment. eight other solicitors general have served on the united states courts of appeals.
solicitor general of the united states
three of the school's graduates have served as chief justice of the united states: charles evans hughes, harlan fiske stone, and john jay. columbia law school is the only law school to have graduated more than one chief justice. nine alumni of columbia law school have served on the supreme court of the united states, including justice ruth bader ginsburg. several alumni have served as united states solicitor general. there are over 90 current and past members of the u.s. federal courts who have graduated from cls. internationally, cls graduates also have occupied prominent judicial positions, including shi jiuyong, former president of the international court of justice (icj); xue hanqin, current member of the icj; giuliano amato, current member of the constitutional court of italy; jan schans christensen ('88 ll.m.), current member of the supreme court of denmark; susan denham, current chief justice, supreme court of ireland; marvic leonen ('04 ll.m.), current member of the supreme court of the philippines; hironobu takesaki, current chief justice of the supreme court of japan; umu hawa tejan-jalloh, current chief justice, supreme court of sierra leone; karin maria bruzelius, former member of the supreme court of norway; lawrence collins, former justice of the supreme court of the united kingdom; and francis m. ssekandi, former justice of the supreme court of uganda, among others.
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