John Montague Steadman (born August 8, 1930) is a senior associate judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
[2] He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1955 and became an associate at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro in San Francisco.
In 1963, Steadman moved to Washington, D.C. to work at the Office of Legal Counsel in the United States Department of Justice.
His career in government service culminated in two years as General Counsel of the Air Force, after which he entered academia.
In 1985, Steadman was nominated to the D.C. Court of Appeals by President Reagan and confirmed by the Senate.