Stephen Swift

{{Short description|American judge (born 1943)}}

{{About||the Scottish footballer|Stephen Swift (footballer)|the English publisher|Charles Granville}}

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Stephen Jensen Swift{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jrc-zBE-mu4C&pg=PA65|page=65|title=Nominations of Stephen J. Swift, Joel Gerber, Troy Hamilton Cribb, Thomas R. Saving, John L. Palmer, Mark A. Weinberger, and Gerald M. Shea|year=2001|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|author=U.S. Senate Committee on Finance|isbn=978-0-16-065011-6 }} (born September 7, 1943 in Utah) is a former judge of the United States Tax Court. Swift graduated from Menlo Atherton High School, in Atherton, California in 1961. He received his Bachelor of Science from Brigham Young University in Political Science in 1967 and his Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School in 1970.

Swift was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as Judge, United States Tax Court,{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/06/28/President-Reagan-Tuesday-nominated-attorneys-Bruce-Beaudin-and-A/9924425620800/|title=President Reagan Tuesday nominated attorneys Bruce Beaudin and A. Franklin Burgess|publisher=UPI|date=June 28, 1983}} on August 16, 1983, for a term ending August 15, 1998. He thereafter served as Senior Judge on recall performing judicial duties until reappointed by President Bill Clinton on December 1, 2000, for a term ending November 30, 2015. Swift resumed senior status on September 8, 2008, and retired on January 1, 2016.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m5QY6RZhT1sC&pg=PP5|title=Reports of the United States Tax Court, V. 146|year=2016|work=United States Tax Court|isbn=9780160937538 |last1=Murphy |first1=Sheila A. |publisher=Government Printing Office }}