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Stephen Stewart Madsen was born in Spokane, Washington, to Henry Stephen Madsen and Sarah Pope Stewart Madsen. He married Rebecca Wetherill Howard Madsen and they have children Stephen Stewart Madsen, Jr.; Lawrence Wetherill Madsen; Christina Wetherill Madsen; and Benton Howard Madsen. Stephen attended West Geauga High School in Chesterland, Ohio, through 10th grade. He then attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, from which he graduated in 1969. He graduated from Harvard College in 1973 and Columbia Law School in 1980. 

Following law school Stephen served as a law clerk to the Hon. Amalya L. Kearse, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He practiced law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, starting as an associate attorney in 1981 and becoming a partner in 1988. He retired from the Firm in 2012. 

Society Memberships 

  • American Society of the Italian Legions of Merit

  • Colonial Order of the Acorn (Board member)

  • General Society of Colonial Wars (Deputy Chancellor General; past Governor, in the State of New York)

  • General Society of Mayflower Descendants (past Governor, in the State of New York)

  • Saint George's Society of New York

  • Society of the Cincinnati (Connecticut Society)

  • Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick of the City of New York

  • The Pilgrims of the United States

 

Published In

The Harvard Advocate, The Mississippi Review, The Lyric, Perpectives, and The American Psychoanalyst 

 

Authorships

Author (with E.R. Chesler) of Removal to Federal Court in Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts (R.L. Haig ed. 2010)

Editor (with B. Hart and R. Hubbard) of New York Antitrust and Consumer Protection Law (3d ed. 2011)

 

Chivalric Orders

Ufficiale, Ordine al Merito della Repúbblica Italiana (Knight Officer, Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy)

 

Other Memberships

  • Member, New York State Bar Association; member and past Chair, Antitrust Law Section

  • Member, New York City Bar Association; member and past Vice Chair, Judiciary Committee

  • Member, Federal Bar Council

  • Trustee, New York Genealogical & Biographical Society

  • Member, English-Speaking Union

  • Member, Union Club of the City of New York; past Secretary; past member, Governing Committee

  • Member, Rockaway Hunting Club; past member, Board of Governors

  • Member, Lawrence Beach Club

  • Member, Long Island Wyandanch Club 

  • Member, Harvard Club of New York City

  • Member, Board of Visitors and Dean’s Council, Columbia Law School

  • Past member, Board of Trustees, La Scuola d’Italia; Board Chairman, 2005 – 2012 

  • Member, Board of Directors, IBLA Foundation, 2006 – present

  • Member, Board of Governors, Hill-Stead Museum, 1995 – 2003, 2014 - present

  • Member, Vestry, St. Bartholomew’s Church, 1995 – 2004

Other 

Stephen is the lead guitarist in a rock and roll band called Sundance, originally formed in 1970. His other interests include reading and writing poetry and shooting.

 

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