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Laurence Silberman (Laurence Hirsch Silberman) was born on 12 October, 1935 in York, Pennsylvania, U.S., is an American judge (1935–2022). Discover Laurence Silberman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

Popular As Laurence Hirsch Silberman
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Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 12 October, 1935
Birthday 12 October
Birthplace York, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date of death 2 October, 2022
Died Place Washington, D.C., U.S.
Nationality United States

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1935

Laurence Hirsch Silberman (October 12, 1935 – October 2, 2022) was an American jurist and diplomat who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1985 until his death.

Silberman was born in 1935 to a Jewish family in York, Pennsylvania.

1957

He graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1957.

1961

After serving six months of active duty in the US Army (five-and-a-half years in reserve), he attended Harvard Law School and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Laws degree.

Silberman worked as a partner at the law firms Moore, Silberman & Schulze in Honolulu and Morrison & Foerster and Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C. He also served as Executive Vice President of Crocker National Bank in San Francisco.

1969

He also worked as an attorney in the National Labor Relations Board's appellate section, as Solicitor 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 and wrote, "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."

He also led the development of legislation to implement "final offer selection" as a means of resolving labor disputes.

1972

As Undersecretary, he repeatedly clashed with Charles "Chuck" Colson and tendered his resignation to compel the hiring of a black regional director in New York in 1972.

1974

President Richard Nixon nominated Silberman to be Deputy Attorney General of the United States in January 1974.

Silberman was tasked with reviewing J. Edgar Hoover's secret files, which he described as "the single worst experience of my long governmental service."

Silberman stated that "this country – and the Federal Bureau of Investigation – would be well served if [Hoover's] name were removed from the bureau's building. It is as if the Defense Department were named for Aaron Burr. Liberals and conservatives should unite to support legislation to accomplish this repudiation of a very sad chapter in American history."

Silberman also served briefly as Acting Attorney General during the Watergate crisis.

Silberman's resignation was accepted by President Gerald Ford, pending the confirmation of his successor.

1975

Ford nominated Silberman as ambassador to Yugoslavia in April 1975.

He served in the role until he resigned during the presidential transition of Jimmy Carter.

At the same time, Silberman also served as the Presidential Special Envoy for International Labor Organization Affairs.

As ambassador, he succeeded in freeing an American who had been falsely imprisoned by the regime as a CIA agent, by putting pressure on both the Yugoslav regime and the State Department.

1979

It was also reported Silberman faced criticism over legal issues arising from his time at Crocker National Bank at which he had been executive vice-president between 1979 and 1983, but that appears to have been pretextual given the FBI had cleared him of any wrongdoing and he had since been confirmed to the D.C. Circuit unanimously.

1980

During the campaign for the 1980 presidential election, he was co-chairman of Ronald Reagan's foreign policy advisors.

1981

From 1981 to 1985, he served as a member of the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament and the Defense Policy Board.

In total, Silberman has held six Senate-confirmed positions and never received a dissenting vote.

1985

Silberman was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on September 11, 1985, to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to a new seat created by 98 Stat.

333. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 25, 1985, and received commission on October 28, 1985.

1987

Silberman was on the short list of potential nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court on three separate occasions in 1987, 1990, and 1991.

However, after the rejection of Robert Bork with whom Silberman had served on the District of Columbia Circuit, he was regarded as controversial.

Unlike fellow conservatives Pasco Bowman II and John Clifford Wallace, Silberman even drew some opposition from Republican senators because although he was a judicial conservative and thus was likely against Roe v. Wade as a legal matter, he was thought to be personally pro-choice.

Meanwhile, some criticized him for having an explosive temper while he was Deputy Attorney General, and at the same time, others noted that "he expect[ed] people to pound the table and shout right back" and uniquely possessed "the interest, talent and capacity for administration."

2000

He was appointed in October 1985 by President Ronald Reagan and took senior status on November 1, 2000.

He assumed senior status on November 1, 2000.

2002

He was a member of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review at the time of its first ever session in 2002.

2004

On February 6, 2004, Silberman was appointed co-chairman of the Iraq Intelligence Commission, an independent blue-ribbon panel created to investigate U.S. intelligence surrounding the United States' 2003 invasion of Iraq and Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

2007

In the wake of the resignation of Alberto Gonzales as United States Attorney General in 2007, Silberman was mentioned as a possible successor.

2008

On June 11, 2008, President George W. Bush awarded Silberman the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In 2008, Silberman, joined by five other senior judges, initiated a suit against the United States, "claiming that when Congress refused to authorize statutory cost-of-living raises for federal judges, it violated the Compensation Clause [of the Constitution]".

The Federal Judges Association opposed bringing the suit.

2014

The suit was ultimately successful, leading to a nationwide rise in pay for all federal judges as of January 1, 2014.

2015

In 2015, Silberman wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, writing that the charge that "President Bush deceived the American people about the threat from Saddam" reminded him of "a similarly baseless accusation that helped the Nazis come to power in Germany."

In October 2021, Silberman won the first annual Justice Clarence Thomas First Principles Award for his judicial service.