Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer hails from San Francisco, California. He received an A.B. from Stanford University, a B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxfgord, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg during the 1964 term. President Bill Clinton nominated him as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he took his seat on August 3, 1994, replacing Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun (best known as the author of Roe v. Wade).
For more information, check out the biographies of current Justices here.
Also, check out his biography on The Oyez Project here.
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