Stewart Jay holds the Pendleton Miller chair[citation needed] in law at the University of Washington School of Law,[1] where he has taught since 1980. Prior to joining the UW faculty, he taught at the University of North Carolina for two years. Before entering teaching, Professor Jay clerked for two years, first with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Warren E. Burger. During 1984-85 he was a visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center. His teaching and research interests include constitutional law and constitutional history. He was one of the principal drafters of Washington Reproductive Privacy Act, enacted by Initiative 120 in 1991.
He graduated from Georgetown University and Harvard Law School.[2] He married Lisa Morelli Kennedy, daughter of John Wayles Kennedy and Dina Morelli and a fifth great-granddaughter of Founding Father and U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, in Seattle, Washington, in 1983.[3]
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- ^ Janet I. Tu and Kyung M. Song (24 June 2010). "Ref. 71 signatures are public, Supreme Court rules". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
- ^ "Stewart Jay".
- ^ Pyne, Frederick Wallace (2000). Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Vol. 6: Virginia. Rockport, Me.: Picton Press. p. 343. ISBN 0-89725-392-2.