Stephen Henderson is the editorial page editor for the Detroit Free Press. His column appears on Sundays in the newspaper and at FreepOpinion.com.

A Detroit native, he is a graduate of University of Detroit High School and the University of Michigan.

He has been a reporter, editorial writer and editor for the Detroit Free Press, the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, the Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun. Before returning to Detroit in 1997, he spent four years covering the U.S. Supreme Court for the Knight Ridder (now McClatchy) Washington Bureau.