Max Stier
Max Ian Stier is an American attorney who serves as the President and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service.Biography
Stier is the son of Serena Auster Stier and Dr. Herbert A. Stier. His mother is a mystery writer and adjunct assistant professor of law and art history at the University of Iowa; his father was an orthopedic surgeon in Los Angeles. He has a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Stanford University.
In 1982, he worked on the staff of Republican Congressman Jim Leach; in 1992, he clerked for Chief Judge James L. Oakes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; and in 1994, he served as a clerk for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1995, Stier joined the Washington D.C. firm of Williams & Connolly where he was part of President Bill Clinton's defense team during the 1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal. Stier was always concerned with the quality of government workers and was able to convince hedge fund manager Samuel Heyman to contribute $25 million to start up a non-for-profit dedicated to attracting qualified young people to government service, the Partnership for Public Service.Personal life
Stier has married twice. In 2004, he remarried to fellow Stanford University law student Florence Yu Pan at the New Zealand embassy in Washington, D.C. In 2016, President President Obama nominated Pan to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia but her nomination expired in January 2017 with the end of the 114th Congress. She was not re-nominated by President Donald Trump.
