John Paul Stevens
United States Supreme Court justice (1920-2019) · United States · On the map · Lawyers · Died at 99
John Paul Stevens was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1975 to 2010. He was the second-oldest and fourth-longest-serving justice in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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Stevens with President Gerald Ford (left) and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger (right) on December 19, 1975, the day he took his seat on the Supreme Court
Stevens (right) swears in John Roberts as Chief Justice on September 29, 2005, while Roberts' wife Jane and President George W. Bush look on. Ceremony in the East Room of the White House.
Stevens with his successor Elena Kagan in 2010
Stevens's official Supreme Court portrait, 1976
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at Stevens's funeralListen
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At the time of his death in 2019 at age 99, he was the longest-lived Supreme Court justice ever. His long tenure saw him write for the Court on most issues of American law, including civil liberties, the death penalty, government action, and intellectual property. Despite being a registered Republican who throughout his life identified as a conservative, Stevens was considered to have been on the liberal side of the Court at the time of his retirement.
