Daniel Mortimer Friedman

Born in New York City, New York, Friedman received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Columbia University in 1937,{{Cite web |title=Obituaries {{!}} Columbia College Today |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/winter11/obituaries |access-date=2022-06-14 |website=www.college.columbia.edu}} and a Bachelor of Laws from Columbia Law School in 1940. He entered private practice in New York City until 1942, and was briefly an attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. in 1942. He joined the United States Army in September 1942 and was in the Quartermaster Corps, including service in Europe during World War II."Judge Daniel M. Friedman", [https://books.google.com/books?id=j3cbTUo9dfUC United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: A History: 1990-2002], compiled by Members of the Advisory Council to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2004, page 79. He was discharged in February 1946 as a master sergeant.

Following his military service, he returned to the Securities and Exchange Commission until 1951, when he became assistant chief of the appellate section of the Antitrust Division in the United States Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C. In 1959, he joined the Office of the United States Solicitor General, serving as an assistant to the solicitor general from 1959 to 1962, then as a second assistant to the solicitor general until 1968, and then as first deputy solicitor general until 1978. He was the Acting United States Solicitor General in 1977.{{FJC Bio|2704|nid=1390371|name=Daniel Mortimer Friedman}}

On March 22, 1978, Friedman was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to become Chief judge of the United States Court of Claims, to the seat vacated by Chief Judge Arnold Wilson Cowen. Friedman was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 17, 1978, and received his commission on May 19, 1978. When the Court of Claims was abolished during the Reagan Administration he was reassigned on October 1, 1982, by operation of the Federal Courts Improvement Act, 96 Stat. 25, to be a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He assumed senior status on November 1, 1989, and served in that capacity until his death on July 6, 2011, in Washington, D.C.

In cooperation with former clerks of Friedman, the Federal Circuit Bar Association in 2012 established the Friedman Memorial Committee to honor Friedman's memory, spirit, and accomplishments. The Committee organizes a prestigious annual lecture, the Judge Daniel M. Friedman Appellate Lecture, to advance the field of appellate advocacy.[http://www.fedcirbar.org/olc/pub/LVFC/cpages/committeepage.jsp?chapter=28 The Friedman Memorial Committee and Judge Daniel M. Friedman Appellate Lecture]{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029194738/http://www.fedcirbar.org/olc/pub/LVFC/cpages/committeepage.jsp?chapter=28 |date=2013-10-29 }} The first annual lecture on November 16, 2012, featured Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.[http://www.fedcirbar.org/olc/filelib/LVFC/cpages/9005/Library/Audio%20Recordings/2012%20Judge%20Freidman%20Advocacy%20Lecture.mp3 Audio recording of the first Annual Lecture, featuring Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, on November 16, 2012] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513220051/http://www.fedcirbar.org/olc/filelib/LVFC/cpages/9005/Library/Audio%20Recordings/2012%20Judge%20Freidman%20Advocacy%20Lecture.mp3 |date=May 13, 2013 }}

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• {{FJC Bio|2704|nid=1390371|name=Daniel Mortimer Friedman}}
• [https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/friedman-daniel-mortimer FJC Court of Federal Claims biography of Daniel M. Friedman]
• {{cite book| title=United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: A History: 1990–2002 / compiled by members of the Advisory Council to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in celebration of the court's twentieth anniversary.| location=Washington, D.C.| publisher=U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit| year=2004| lccn=2004050209}}

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