Adam Yarmolinsky | |
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Born |
New York City, U.S. |
November 17, 1922
Died | January 5, 2000 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
(aged 77)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
Yale Law School Harvard College |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Parent(s) | Avrahm Yarmolinsky and Babette Deutsch |
Adam Yarmolinsky (November 17, 1922 – January 5, 2000) was an American academic, educator and author, as well as a political appointee who served in numerous capacities in the Kennedy, Johnson and Carter administrations.
Besides serving in the White House, he also held posts in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He was an aide to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon, where Yarmolinsky was an early critic of American policies in the Vietnam war.
Yarmolinsky attended the Fieldston School in Riverdale and then graduated from Harvard College where he was editorial director of the Harvard Crimson. He enlisted in the US Army Air Corps during World War II and rose to the rank of sergeant.
After the war, he received a law degree from Yale Law School in 1948. He served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Charles E. Clark of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, based in New York, and later as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed during the 1950 Term.
Following his service in the U.S. government Yarmolinsky became Regent's Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where he served as Provost. Another academic post was as Ralph Waldo Emerson Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the mid 1970s. He was also a founding member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 1967 he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.