Stevens, John Christopher, 1960-2012
John Christopher, “Chris” Stevens was born in 1960 in Grass Valley, California, to Mary F. Stevens (Commanday) and Jan S. Stevens, both members of a family of teachers and public servants. His early years were spent in Marin County, hiking, camping, and playing tennis with his parents and sister, Anne, and brother, Tom. The family later moved to Davis and, in 1975, to Piedmont, where Chris attended Piedmont High school, Class of 1978. He was editor of the school newspaper, played on the tennis team, played the saxophone, and performed in the school’s music & theatrical performances. In the summer of his junior year in high school, Chris was accepted to the American Field Service home exchange program in Spain, since he had studied Spanish. This experience ignited his interest in travel and foreign languages.
At UC Berkeley, where Chris majored in History, Class of 1982, he studied French and then spent a semester in Perugia learning Italian. Entering the Peace Corps after graduation, he was sent, because of his knowledge of French, to Morocco, where the Peace Corps required a beginning course in Arabic. He was then sent into the Atlas Mountains, a Berber region, to teach English from 1982 to 1985. On his return to the U.S., Chris attended the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco, Class of 1989, serving as a member of the Law Review. After passing the California Bar examination, he worked for two years in international trade law at the firm of Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro.
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