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Stephen Gerald Breyer
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States. Senior status since June 30, 2022.
Confirmed 87 to 9Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- William J. Clinton
- Nominated
- May 17, 1994
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- July 12, 1994
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), July 25, 1994
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 87 to 9
- Confirmed
- July 29, 1994
- Commissioned
- August 3, 1994
- Senior status
- Since June 30, 2022
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1938, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it.
Source: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges · This judge’s entry. Our copy saved October 16, 2026, fingerprint 92b677f26553b479.
Earlier federal judicial service
- Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Appointed by Jimmy Carter; commissioned ; Senate vote 80 to 10. Service ended August 3, 1994: Appointment to Another Judicial Position.
Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- U.S. Army, 1957
- Law clerk, Hon. Arthur Goldberg, Supreme Court of the United States, 1964-1965
- Special assistant to the assistant attorney general, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1965-1967
- Faculty, Harvard Law School, 1967-1994; professor, 1967-1980; lecturer, 1981-1994
- Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1977-1980
- Assistant special prosecutor, Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 1973
- Special counsel, Administrative Practices Subcommittee, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 1974-1975
- Chief counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 1979-1980
- Commissioner, U.S. Sentencing Commission, 1985-1989
- Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1990-1994
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