Peter B. Edelman
| Peter Edelman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Peter Benjamin Edelman January 9, 1938 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
| Education |
Harvard, A.B. Harvard Law School, LL.B. |
| Occupation | Lawyer, policy maker, law professor |
| Spouse(s) | Marian Wright Edelman (m. 1968) |
| Children | 3 |
Peter Benjamin Edelman (born January 9, 1938) is an American lawyer, policy maker, and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of poverty, welfare, juvenile justice, and constitutional law. He worked for Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and for the Clinton administration, where he resigned to protest Bill Clinton's signing the welfare reform legislation. Edelman was one of the founders and president of the board of the New Israel Fund.
Edelman grew up in a Jewish family Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Hyman and Miriam Edelman. His father worked as a lawyer and his mother worked as a homemaker. His grandfather Eliezer Edelman was a rabbi in Poland; Eliezer and his wife were shot and killed by the Nazis during World War II.
Edelman received his A.B. in 1958 from Harvard College and LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School. Edelman served as a law clerk to Judge Henry Friendly on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then as a law clerk for United States Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg.
He also worked in the U.S. Department of Justice as special assistant to assistant attorney general John Douglas. Edelman worked as a legislative assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy, from 1964 to 1968, accompanying Kennedy to his meeting with labor leader Cesar Chavez. Edelman also met his wife while touring impoverished areas of Mississippi with Kennedy to prepare for reauthorization of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Following Kennedy's assassination, Edelman spent brief periods working as deputy director for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, issues director for Arthur Goldberg's New York gubernatorial campaign, and vice president of the University of Massachusetts, from 1972 to 1975.
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