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Stephen Breyer
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US Supreme Court justice from 1994 to 2022
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Stephen Gerald Breyer is an American jurist, judge, lawyer, and university teacher. Born in San Francisco in 1938, he holds citizenship in the United States and practices Judaism. He serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. His professional career includes roles at the United States Department of Justice and Harvard University. He has worked in Washington, D.C., and Cambridge.
Breyer was educated at Stanford University, Magdalen College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard University. He clerked for Arthur Goldberg. His academic affiliations include membership in the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the Legion of Honour and the Marshall Scholarship. He speaks and writes in English and has three children.
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Key facts
- Nominated by
- Bill Clinton
- Preceded by
- Harry Blackmun
- Succeeded by
- Ketanji Brown Jackson
- Born
- Stephen Gerald Breyer , ( 1938-08-15 ) August 15, 1938 (age 87) , San Francisco , California, U.S.
- Party
- Democratic
- Spouse
- Joanna Hare ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1967 )
- Relatives
- Charles Breyer (brother)
- Education
- Stanford University ( BA ) Magdalen College, Oxford ( BA ) Harvard University ( LLB )
- Branch service
- United States Army U.S. Army Reserve
- Years of service
- 1957–1965
- Rank
- Corporal
- Unit
- Army Strategic Intelligence
- Battles wars
- Vietnam War
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gerald
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- San Francisco
- Occupation
- politician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Image
- Stephen Breyer, SCOTUS photo portrait.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Work location
- Cambridge
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- Commons category
- Stephen Breyer
- date of birth
- 1938-08-15
- birth name
- Stephen Gerald Breyer
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Stephen Breyer
- P10632
- Stephen Breyer
- clerked for
- Arthur Goldberg
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Encyclopedic overview
Stephen Gerald Breyer (/ˈbraɪ.ər/, BRY-ər; born August 15, 1938) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1994 until his retirement in 2022. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton, and replaced retiring justice Harry Blackmun. Breyer was generally associated with the liberal wing of the Court. Since his retirement, he has been the Byrne Professor of Administrative Law and Process at Harvard Law School.
Born in San Francisco, Breyer attended Stanford University and the University of Oxford, and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1964. After a clerkship with Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg in 1964–65, Breyer was a law professor and lecturer at Harvard Law School from 1967 until 1980. He specialized in administrative law, writing textbooks that remain in use today. He held other prominent positions before being nominated to the Supreme Court, including special assistant to the United States assistant attorney general for antitrust and assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in 1973. Breyer became a federal judge in 1980, when he was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In his 2005 book Active Liberty, Breyer made his first attempt to systematically communicate his views on legal theory, arguing that the judiciary should seek to resolve issues in a manner that encourages popular participation in governmental decisions.
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