1. Peter Benjamin Edelman was born on January 9,1938 and is an American legal scholar.
15 Facts About Peter Edelman
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Peter Edelman is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of poverty, welfare, juvenile justice, and constitutional law.
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Peter Edelman worked as an aide for Senator Robert F Kennedy and in the Clinton Administration, where he resigned to protest Bill Clinton's signing the welfare reform legislation.
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Peter Edelman grew up in a Jewish family in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Hyman and Miriam Peter Edelman.
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Peter Edelman's father worked as a lawyer and his mother worked as a homemaker.
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Peter Edelman's grandfather Eliezer Edelman was a rabbi in Poland; Eliezer and his wife were shot and killed by the Nazis during World War II.
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Peter Edelman served as a law clerk to Judge Henry Friendly of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then for US Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg.
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Peter Edelman met his wife while touring impoverished areas of Mississippi with Kennedy to prepare for reauthorization of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.
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Peter Edelman took a leave of absence during Clinton's first term, to serve as counselor to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and then as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation.
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In September 1996, Peter Edelman resigned from the Clinton administration in protest of Clinton signing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act.
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Peter Edelman has served as an associate dean of the Georgetown University Law Center, the president of the board of New Israel Fund, from June 2005 to June 2008.
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Peter Edelman served on the board of the Center for Community Change, the Public Welfare Foundation, Americans for Peace Now, the Center for Law and Social Policy and the American Constitution Society, among others.
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In 1990, Peter Edelman was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board.
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Peter Edelman currently serves as chair of the seventeen-member Access to Justice Commission for the District of Columbia, a panel studying ways to provide access to civil legal representation for those who cannot afford it.
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Peter Edelman is married to Marian Wright Peter Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund and the first black woman admitted to the bar in Mississippi.