Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1975 until 2010. He was one of its longest-serving justices.
He served in the United States Navy during World War II.
He was under three different Chief Justices: Warren E. Burger, william Rehnquist, and John G. Roberts.
His father was a hotelier and Lawyer named Ernest James Stevens.
He was nominated by President Gerald R. Ford to be a Supreme Court Justice.
