Monte N. Stewart
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Monte Neil Stewart (born 1949) is president of the Marriage Law Foundation, the former United States District Attorney for Nevada, and a former Special Assistant Attorney General and Counsel to the Governor of Utah.
Biography
Stewart was born in St. George, Utah to Neil Stewart and his wife Velma Heaton.
Stewart received his B.A. from Brigham Young University, summa cum laude with highest honors in 1973. He attended BYU for law school as well, graduating summa cum laude and first in his class in 1976, after which he clerked for Chief Justice Warren Berger. In 2004, Stewart received an M.St. with distinction from Oxford.
Stewart served for at time as United States Attorney for the District of Nevada pursuant to an appointment by the Federal Judges of that District, and later was a legal advisor to Governor Michael Leavitt of Utah.[1]
Stewart has been involved in private practice and was for a time a law professor at Brigham Young University.
In 2004 Stewart was a co-chair of Utahns for a Better Tomorrow, one of the four sponsors of Utah Amendment 3 which limited marriage to male-female couples and prevented the recognition of civil unions or domestic partnerships.[2]
Stewart has used social institutions theory in many papers to argue against same-sex marriage. Among many other participations, Stewart was an invited participant in a Vermont Law School meeting on marriage and family in October 2007.[3] An article by him also appeared in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy Vol. 31, no. 1.[4] Stewart also wrote a biography of Jesse Lamb Stewart.[5]
Stewart filed amicus curiae briefs in California's In Re Marriage Cases litigation[6] and in Iowa's Varnum v. Brien case on behalf of United Families International, Family Watch International and the Family Leader Foundation.
Stewart and his wife, the former Anne Lillywhite, are the parents of ten children.
Notes
- ^ Belnap, Stewart, Taylor and Morris bio of Stewart
- ^ Deseret News, Oct. 21, 2004
- ^ [1] Text of Stewart's statements on marriage.
- ^ [2] Monte Neil Stewart, Marriage Facts, 31 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 313 (2008).
- ^ [3]
- ^ [4] App. for Permission To File Amici Curiae Brief and Amici Curiae Brief of United Families Int'l, Family Watch Int'l, and Family Leader Found. in Support of Resp. State of Calif., In Re Marriage Cases, 183 P.3d 384, 43 Cal.4th 757 (Cal. 2008) (Case No. S147999).
- 1950 births
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- American Latter Day Saints
- J. Reuben Clark Law School alumni
- Brigham Young University faculty
- Living people
- Mission presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Nevada lawyers
- People from St. George, Utah
- United States Attorneys for the District of Nevada
- Utah lawyers