John Stevens:  

Life I left Charles Carroll Middle School in New Carrollton, Maryland, in 9th grade and went to high school in Clarksville, Tennessee. After graduating from CHS, I went to the University of Maryland. I grew hair down to the middle of my back and lived in a hippy van on campus. When I graduated, I worked for a few months and then went to law school at Vanderbilt. Law school was a three year psychotic break, but I met some great people and actually learned a few things along the way. Some would question that, however, because when I graduated in 1977, I became the first licensed attorney to join the Metro Nashville Police Department. I was a street cop for five and a half years and even got promoted to sergeant. Being a police officer was without doubt the best thing I ever did. For a variety of reasons, however, I joined the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, DC, in 1982, as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. By 1985, I was in the Special Prosecutions Unit where every case was like reading a novel. In 1990, my dad became ill and I went looking for a better cost of living so I could move him in with me. I took a position with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix and moved Dad and his obnoxious cat to Arizona with me. After Dad died in 1993, I stayed on until June of 2000, when I left the Department of Justice to found a software company. The company was up and running in a year, and on Sept...Expand for more