Class of 1955 | San Francisco-Lowell High School, California
Stephen G. Breyer is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Breyer received an A.B. from Stanford University, a B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. President Clinton nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat August 3, 1994. Breyer is generally associated with the more liberal side of the Court. Breyer has extensive experience in administrative law and is the Court’s leading purposivist—considering, determining, and interpreting the purpose of a statute paramount.
IN HIS WORDS | Read this letter written by Justice Breyer about his time in debate, courtesy of Tara L. Tate.
Stephen Breyer, Attribution: Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, Photographer: Steve Petteway, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons