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Laurence Silberman

Laurence Silberman (12 October 1935-2 October 2022) was a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 28 October 1985 to 1 November 2000, preceding Brett Kavanaugh.

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Laurence Silberman was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1935, and he served in the US Army for six years before graduating from Harvard in 1961 and working as a lawyer in Honolulu and Washington DC and in the banking industry in San Francisco. During Richard Nixon's presidency, Silberman served as Solicitor of Labor from 1969 to 1970, Under Secretary of Labor from 1970 to 1973, and Deputy Attorney General from 1974 to 1975; under Gerald Ford, he served as Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1975 to 1976. In 1985, President Ronald Reagan appointed Silberman as a federal judge in Washington, serving from 1985 to 2000; he concurrently served as a Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review from 1996 to 2005 and Chair of the Iraq Intelligence Commission from 2004 to 2005. In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded Silberman the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Silberman died in 2022 at the age of 86.

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