Justice John Paul Stevens retired from the Supreme Court on June 29, 2010. Justice Stevens served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1945 and was a law clerk to Justice Wiley Rutledge of the Supreme Court during the 1947 Term. From 1970 to 1975, he served as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. President Ford nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took his seat December 19, 1975. This transcript is adapted from a dialogue hosted by the Yale Law & Policy Review between Justice Stevens and Linda Greenhouse at Yale Law School on April 24, 2012.
Linda Greenhouse is Senior Research Scholar in Law, Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence, and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School. Ms. Greenhouse covered the Supreme Court for the New York Times between 1978 and 2008.
