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JOHN PAUL STEVENS
was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 20, 1920. He was
graduated from the University of Chicago, in 1941 and
from Northwestern University School of Law in 1947, after
having served in the United States Navy during World War
II. He served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Wiley
B. Rutledge of the United States Supreme Court for the
1947-1948 Term. He practiced law in Chicago from 1949
ro 1970, except for 1951, when he served as Associate
Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee
on the Study of Monopoly Power. In the early 1950s, Stevens
taught on the law faculty at Northwestern and Chicago
Universities. From 1953 to 1955, Stevens was a member
of the Attorney General’s National Committee to Study
the Antitrust Laws. In 1969, he served as general counsel
to a special commission appointed by the Illinois Supreme
Court to investigate the integrity of one of its judgments.
In 1970, President Richard M. Nixon appointed Stevens
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh
Circuit. President Gerald R. Ford nominated Stevens to
the Supreme Court of the United States on December 1,
1975. The Senate confirmed the appointment on December
17, 1975.
Image Credit: Collection of
the Supreme Court of the United States, Photographer:
Steve Petteway
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