Bloomberg Law
July 17, 2019, 8:30 PM UTC

Stevens’ Clerks Reflect on Justice’s Kindness, Even in Editing

Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Special Correspondent

Early on in her Supreme Court clerkship, Melissa Arbus Sherry mentioned to Justice John Paul Stevens that she played high school tennis. Stevens, who was an avid tennis player, suggested that they play together some time, but Sherry didn’t think much of it.

Then, during lunch in the Supreme Court’s courtyard one day near the end of the term, Stevens said, “O.K., I’m gonna come pick you up tomorrow morning before court and we’re gonna go play tennis,’” recalled Sherry, now deputy managing partner of Latham & Watkins’ Washington office.

“We played singles, and he beat me, very badly,” she ...

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