Stephen L. Carter
American legal academic and writer
Stephen Lisle Carter (born October 26, 1954) is an American legal scholar who is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He writes on legal and social issues.
Early life and education
Carter was born in Washington, D.C., the second of his parents' five children. He was raised in a family committed to public service. His mother worked as an executive assistant for Julian Bond and M. Carl Holman of the National Urban Coalition. An attorney turned administrator, his father was executive director of the Washington Urban League, and later a vice president at Cornell University. Carter's grandfather was a successful dentist in Harlem and his grandmother, Eunice Hunton Carter, was the first black woman to be a district attorney in New York state. His great-grandmother was the suffragist and activist Addie Waites Hunton.
Carter graduated from Ithaca High School in 1972, and his essay "The Best Black" is based in part on his experiences there. At Ithaca High School, he was the editor-in-chief of The Tattler, and pushed hard for student representation on the local school board.
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