John Paul Stevens
Enduring Justice
IN LATE 1975, WITH AMERICA STILL REELING from the scandals of the Nixon presidency and the trauma of the Vietnam era, President Gerald Ford tapped an appeals-court judge from Chicago, John Paul Stevens, to fill a recently vacated seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. “The objective of President Ford and his staff was to find somebody who was as apolitical as possible and above reproach in terms of integrity,” says Jeffrey Fisher, who clerked for Stevens in
