Laurence Hirsch Silberman

Judicial Service

Education

• Dartmouth College, A.B., 1957
• Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1961

Professional Career

U.S. Army private, 1957-1958; Private practice, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1961-1967; Lecturer, University of Hawaii Law School, 1962-1963; Attorney, Appellate Division, National Labor Relations Board, 1967-1969; Solicitor, U.S. Department of Labor, 1969-1970; Undersecretary of labor, 1970-1973; Private practice, Washington, D.C., 1973-1974, 1978-1979, 1983-1985; Deputy attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1974-1975; Ambassador to Yugoslavia, U.S. Department of State, 1975-1977; President's special envoy on International Labor Organization Affairs, 1976; American Enterprise Institute, 1977-1985; senior fellow, 1977-1978; visiting fellow, 1978-1985; Executive vice president of strategic planning, Legal and Government Affairs, Crocker National Bank, San Francisco, California, 1979-1983; Faculty, Georgetown University Law Center, 1987-; adjunct professor of law, 1987-1999; distinguished visitor from the judiciary, 2000-; Co-chair, President's Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2004-2005

Other Federal Judicial Service

• Judge, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, 1996-2003

External Links

• Federal Judicial Center Biography