Justice Kagan Believes President Obama Would Not Have Appointed Her to the Court If She Were Male

Elena Kagan told a group of law students at the University of Tennessee that she did not think President Obama would have appointed her as a Supreme Court Justice if she were not a woman.

And to tell you the truth, there were also things that I got because I was a woman. I mean I'm not sure I'd be sitting here.--Elena Kagan

Besides being a woman, Kagan is a graduate of Princeton, Oxford, and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. She clerked for Judge Abner J. Mikva of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Justice Thurgood Marshall.

She was a tenured professor at the University of Chicago Law School and a published author on First Amendment protections. She served as the first woman Solicitor General of the United States. Somehow, Kagan also found the time to serve as the Dean of Harvard Law School.

Those credentials don't seem too bad. And unlike Clarence Thomas, there was no mention of her placing a pubic hair on a colleague's Coke during her Supreme Court confirmation process.

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