Glimpses into the life of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has carefully guarded her professional and personal lives, especially since being nominated for the Supreme Court earlier this week. To get a fuller picture of the woman who could become one of the nine justices, we talk with two people who knew her as a colleague, a teacher, and a baseball fan, during her time at the University of Chicago Law School from 1991 – 1995.

Richard Badger is an assistant dean at the University of Chicago Law School. He used to attend White Sox games with Kagan. And Carolyn Shapiro was a student of Kagan’s when she taught law at the University of Chicago.