Laurence H. Silberman
| Laurence Silberman | |
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Silberman (right) with George W. Bush and Chuck Robb announcing the formation of the Iraq Intelligence Commission
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| Chair of the Iraq Intelligence Commission | |
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In office February 6, 2004 – March 31, 2005 Served with Chuck Robb |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review | |
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In office June 18, 1996 – May 18, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Warren |
| Succeeded by | Ralph Winter |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
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In office October 28, 1985 – November 1, 2000 |
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| Nominated by | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Seat established |
| Succeeded by | Brett Kavanaugh |
| United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia | |
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In office May 8, 1975 – December 26, 1976 |
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| President | Gerald Ford |
| Preceded by | Malcolm Toon |
| Succeeded by | Lawrence Eagleburger |
| United States Deputy Attorney General | |
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In office 1974–1975 |
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| President | Gerald Ford |
| Preceded by | William Ruckelshaus |
| Succeeded by | Harold Tyler |
| United States Under Secretary of Labor | |
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In office 1970–1973 |
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| President | Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | James Hodgson |
| Succeeded by | Richard Schubert |
| Personal details | |
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October 12, 1935 York, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) |
Ricky Gaull Patricia Winn |
| Education |
Dartmouth College (BA) Harvard University (LLB) |
Laurence Hirsch Silberman (born October 12, 1935) is a senior federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was appointed in October 1985 by Ronald Reagan and took senior status on November 1, 2000. He continues to serve on the court. On June 11, 2008, Silberman was named a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor granted by the government of the United States.
Silberman graduated from Dartmouth College in 1957 and Harvard Law School in 1961. He served in the United States Army from 1957 to 1958. His first wife, Rosalie "Ricky" Gaull Silberman, co-foundress of the Independent Women's Forum, died on February 17, 2007. Silberman has since married Patricia Winn Silberman. Silberman has three children, Robert S. Silberman, Kate Balaban, and Anne Otis.
Silberman is also a friend of Justice Clarence Thomas and in 1989 encouraged a young and then-reluctant Thomas to accept a federal judgeship on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Silberman has worked in the private sector as a partner at the law firms Moore, Silberman & Schulze in Honolulu and Morrison & Foerster and Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C. He has also served as Executive Vice President of Crocker National Bank in San Francisco. His government service includes stints as an attorney in the NLRB's appellate section, as Solicitor of the Department of Labor from 1969 to 1970, and as Undersecretary of Labor from 1970 to 1973. As Solicitor, he was largely responsible for developing the requirement of goals and timetables as an enforcement device for the affirmative action order. He subsequently regretted his stance, writing, "Our use of numerical standards in pursuit of equal opportunity has led to the very quotas guaranteeing equal results that we initially wished to avoid."
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