U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (retired), 91, spoke in Grand Rapids as part of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation’s 2011 William E. Simon Lecture in Public Affairs and was sponsored by Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s Krinock Lecture Series. Nominated to the Supreme Court by President Gerald R. Ford, Justice Stevens took his seat as an Associate Supreme Court Justice on Dec. 19, 1975, and retired on June 29, 2010.
President Ford’s daughter, Susan Ford Bales, introduced Justice Stevens to a full room of more than 700 inside the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel’s Ambassador Ballroom. In attendance, with community leaders and those from the legal profession were 45 Cooley Law School students. Justice Stevens’ speech carried two central themes: President Ford’s impact on the Supreme Court decision involving the University of Michigan’s affirmative action program and the decision made by President Ford to appoint Edward Levi as his attorney general.
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