Stephen G. Breyer has served as U.S. Supreme Court Justice since his appointment by President Clinton in 1994. Justice Breyer was assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in 1973 and served as chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1978 to 1979. He also had a long tenure as a law professor at Harvard University and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In 1980, Justice Breyer was appointed judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and became the Circuit's chief judge in 1990. He is a graduate of Stanford University, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School.