Last updated on:
1/25/2013 |
Author: ProCon.org
John Paul Stevens, JD Biography
- Title:
- Former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Is the ACLU Good for America?"
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None found as of Jan. 29, 2013
- Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Experts
Individuals with PhDs and JDs or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to the ACLU. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to the ACLU. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, Dec. 19, 1975-June 29, 2010
- Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1970-1975
- Second Vice President, Chicago Bar Association, 1970
- Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School, 1955-1958
- Member, Attorney General’s National Committee to Study Antitrust Law, 1953-1955
- Partner, Rothschild, Stevens, Barry and Myers (Chicago), 1952-1970
- Associate Counsel, Subcommittee on the Study of Monopoly Power of the Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives, 1951-1952
- Lecturer, Antitrust Law, Northwestern University School of Law, 1950-1954
- Associate, Poppenhusen, Johnston, Thompson and Raymond (Chicago), 1950-1952
- Admitted to Illinois Bar, 1949
- Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge, 1947-1948
- Coeditor, Illinois Law Review
- Served on a code-cracking team, United States Navy, 1942-1945
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JD, magna cum laude, Northwestern University School of Law, 1947
AB, English Literature, University of Chicago, 1941 - Other:
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- Born Apr. 20, 1920
- Earned a Bronze Star while serving in the Navy
- Graduated from Northwestern University Law School with the highest grades in the school’s history
- Retired from the Supreme Court on June 29, 2010
- Died on July 16, 2019
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