Lester Hyman

Hyman graduated from Brown University in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and from Columbia University School of Law in 1955 with a Bachelor of Law.{{cite web | url=https://dc.alumni.columbia.edu/hyman_jfk | title=JFK, the Kennedys and Me|website=dc.alumni.columbia.edu }}

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For the Clinton administration, Hyman vetted candidates for Vice President, Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury, Director of the CIA, and the U.S. Supreme Court, including preparation for the senatorial confirmation hearings.

In 1994, President Clinton appointed him to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission, which oversaw the construction of the FDR Memorial in Washington. President Clinton appointed Hyman to the Presidential Delegation, which represented the United States at the 1996 Peace Accord signing in Guatemala that ended a 36-year civil war.

Hyman's book, United States Policy Towards Liberia, was published by the Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers in 2003.Hyman, L: United States Policy Towards Liberia 1822 to 2003, Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers, 2003 It is based on his time as legal counsel to Liberia from 1997 to 1999 and talks about the humanitarian crisis.

In the federal government, Hyman served as an attorney with the Corporation Finance Division of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, and later as a senior consultant to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.{{cite book|author=Lester S. Hyman |url=https://openlibrary.org/b/OL5634396M/report_and_recommendations_on_the_posture_of_the_Department_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development_toward_the_States |title=A report and recommendations on the posture of the Department of Housing and Urban Development toward the States. |year=1967 |publisher=Open Library |accessdate=2012-10-03}} On the state level, he was chief assistant to the governor, then secretary of commerce and development, and later chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party.

As a member of the International Observer Team in 1990 headed by former President Jimmy Carter, he monitored the first democratic election in the history of Haiti. Additionally, he has been involved in peace resolution efforts in Africa, as well as legal and governmental issues in Japan, France, Korea, Germany, England, Lebanon, Russia, and the Caribbean.{{cite web|url=http://www.islandsun.com/2003-August/15082003/local3-v11i12.html |title=Island Sun Newspaper |publisher=Islandsun.com |date=2003-08-15 |accessdate=2012-10-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031060857/http://www.islandsun.com/2003-August/15082003/local3-v11i12.html |archivedate=2012-10-31 }}

Hyman served on the board of trustees of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, from 1996 to 1997.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}

From 2004 to 2007, he was a trustee of the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) and a member of the board of the UDC Foundation.{{cite web|url=http://www.udc.edu/president/board_trustees/hyman.htm |title=Lester S. Hyman - Board of Trustees |accessdate=September 28, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211133544/http://www.udc.edu/president/board_trustees/hyman.htm |archivedate=December 11, 2007 }} While a member of the board of the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI) in 2004, he served as project director for an 18-nation IIPI conference on the creation of the Caribbean Court of Justice.{{Cite web|date=2004-04-16|title=IIPI {{!}} About Us: Board|url=http://iipi.org/about/board.htm|access-date=2020-11-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040416053503/http://iipi.org/about/board.htm |archive-date=2004-04-16 }}

He was a member of the board and chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of the not-for-profit Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), and has taught a course in "Decision-Making in Politics" at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.{{cite web|url=http://www.c4ads.org/lester.hyman |title=Center for Advanced Defense Studies |publisher=C4ADS |accessdate=2012-10-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007143311/http://www.c4ads.org/lester.hyman |archivedate=2010-10-07 }} He is also a founding member of the board of directors of the Center for National Policy.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}

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