Jay B. Stephens (born November 5, 1946) is an American attorney who served as President George W. Bush's first Associate Attorney General. Stephens grew up on a livestock and grain farm in northwest Iowa. He graduated from Harvard College in 1968 and Harvard Law School in 1973. After law school, he spent a year as an associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and then served as an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate prosecution team from 1974 to 1975. From 1976 to 1977, he was an associate general counsel at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. He then spent four years as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington, D.C., before moving to the Justice Department, where he served in various capacities from 1981 to 1986. In 1986, he was appointed Deputy White House Counse