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John Christopher Stevens (April 18, 1960 – September 12, 2012) was an American diplomat and lawyer who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Libya from June 2012 to September 12, 2012.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stevens, J. Christopher )〕 Stevens was killed when the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked by Islamic militants on September 11–12, 2012. ==Early life and education== Stevens was born on April 18, 1960 in Grass Valley, California, the eldest of three siblings born to Jan S. Stevens, a California Assistant Attorney General,〔 and his wife Mary J. Stevens née Floris, from a West Coast family of French, Swedish and Chinook ancestry.〔("Slain ambassador was member of local Chinook Tribe" ) ''Chinook Observer.'' September 13, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2012.〕 Stevens was raised in Northern California and had two younger siblings, Anne (b. 1962) and Thomas (b. 1965). Stevens' parents divorced in 1975, and both remarried. He had a half-sister, Hilary (b. 1980), from his father's second marriage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stevens Remembered as a Man Who Cared Deeply for Libya )〕 His mother, a cellist, joined the Marin Symphony Orchestra (1969—2004),〔(The death of Chris Stevens, U.S. Ambassador to Libya, hits close to home. )〕 and in 1976 married Robert Commanday, a music critic with the ''San Francisco Chronicle''.〔California Marriage Index, 1960–1985, accessed on ancestry.com on September 17, 2012〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Slain Ambassador Chris Stevens was `A Very Smart, Very Funny Guy' says Cal Roommate Austin Tichenor )〕 Stevens was an AFS Intercultural Programs exchange student in Spain during summer of 1977, and graduated from Piedmont High School in 1978. He earned a B.A. in history in 1982 at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. From 1983 to 1985, he taught English as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco. He graduated with a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1989, and received an M.S. degree from the National War College in 2010. Stevens was also a member of the Chinook Indian Nation through his mother. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「J. Christopher Stevens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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