LAURENCE
H. SILBERMAN
Judge Silberman was appointed United States Circuit
Judge in October 1985, and took senior status on November 1, 2000. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom
on June 19, 2008. He graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1957 and Harvard Law School in 1961. He has been a partner in law firms in Honolulu
and Washington, D.C., as well as a banker in San Francisco. He served in government as an attorney in the
NLRB’s appellate section, Solicitor of the Department of Labor from 1969 to
1970, Undersecretary of Labor from 1970 to 1973, Deputy Attorney General of the
United States from 1974 to 1975, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1975 to
1977. From 1981 to 1985, he served as a
member of the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament and
the Department of Defense Policy Board. He
was appointed by the Chief Justice to a term (1996 to 2003) as a member of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s Review Panel. He also served as Co-Chairman (2004 to 2005)
of the President’s Intelligence Commission. He was an Adjunct Professor of Administrative
Law at Georgetown University Law Center from 1987 to 1994 and in 1997 and 1999,
at NYU from 1995 to 1996, and at Harvard in 1998. He is now the Distinguished Visitor from the
Judiciary at Georgetown University Law Center.