Per wikipedia:
Stevens was born on April 18, 1960 in Grass Valley, California, and raised in Northern California, the oldest of three children of Jan S. Stevens, a Yolo County Superior Court judge, Davis city councilman and California Assistant Attorney General, and the former Mary Floris. His parents divorced in the early 1970s. Both remarried, and Christopher had a half-sister by his father's second marriage; his mother became a cellist with the Marin Symphony Orchestra beginning in 1976, and married Robert Commanday, a longtime music critic with the San Francisco Chronicle. The younger Stevens attended Pioneer Elementary School and Emerson Junior High in Davis, then graduated from Piedmont High School in 1978; he earned a B.A. in history at the University of California, Berkeley in 1982. 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. He spoke English, Arabic, and French.
Prior to joining the United States Foreign Service, he was an international trade lawyer based in Washington, D.C. He was admitted as an active member of the State Bar of California on January 26, 1990, then went on inactive status on August 1, 1991 and remained an inactive member to his death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Stevens_(diplomat)

I had no idea he was born here!
Wow... Small world...

he was born in my hometown...
http://www.theunion.com/news/2552846-113/stevens-grass-valley-ambassador

There is some good personal information in this article from our local paper..