Justice Stephen Breyer
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| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
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Assumed office August 3, 1994 |
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| Nominated by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Harry Blackmun |
| Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit | |
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In office March 1990 – August 3, 1994 |
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| Preceded by | Levin Campbell |
| Succeeded by | Juan Torruella |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit | |
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In office December 10, 1980 – August 3, 1994 |
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| Nominated by | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Sandra Lynch |
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Stephen Gerald Breyer August 15, 1938 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Joanna Hare (1967–present) |
| Children | 3 |
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Stanford University (BA) Magdalen College, Oxford (BA) Harvard University (LLB) |
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 Justice Stephen Breyer: The Court And The World, 1:14:57, WGBH Forum Network
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Stephen Gerald Breyer (/ˈbraɪər/; born August 15, 1938) is an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994, Breyer is generally associated with the more liberal side of the Court.
Following a clerkship with Supreme Court Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg in 1964, Breyer became well known as a law professor and lecturer at Harvard Law School, starting in 1967. There he specialized in administrative law, writing a number of influential textbooks that remain in use today. He held other prominent positions before being nominated for the Supreme Court, including special assistant to the United States Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in 1973, and serving on the First Circuit Court of Appeals from 1980 to 1994.
In his 2005 book Active Liberty, Breyer made his first attempt to systematically lay out his views on legal theory, arguing that the judiciary should seek to resolve issues in a manner that encourages popular participation in governmental decisions.
Breyer was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Anne A. (née Roberts) and Irving Gerald Breyer, and raised in a middle-class Jewish family. Irving Breyer was legal counsel for the San Francisco Board of Education. Both Breyer and his younger brother, Charles, who is a federal district judge, are Eagle Scouts of San Francisco's Troop 14. Breyer's paternal great-grandfather emigrated from Romania to the United States, settling in Cleveland, where Breyer's grandfather was born. In 1955, Breyer graduated from Lowell High School. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated regularly in high school tournaments, including against future California governor Jerry Brown and future Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe.
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