Background
Goldman, Sheldon was born on September 18, 1939 in Bronx, New York, United States. Son of Yehuda and Anne Goldman.
(In this landmark book, a leading authority on lower feder...)
In this landmark book, a leading authority on lower federal court judicial selections tells the riveting story of how nine presidents over a period of fifty-six years have chosen federal judges. Sheldon Goldman has interviewed participants, and he has mined published and unpublished government documents and archives, along with memoranda, letters, and other documents in the papers of every president from Franklin Roosevelt through Ronald Reagan, to bring to life the judicial selection process. His book is filled with richly drawn and dramatic accounts of each president's use of judicial appointments to further policy, partisan, and personal agendas. Goldman analyzes political and social changes that have occurred over the years and the impact of those changes on the profile of those selected for the bench.
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(A president's least-noticed important legacy is his appoi...)
A president's least-noticed important legacy is his appointment of judges to the lower federal bench. How are these judges chosen? What happens behind the scenes? How important are senators, party organizations, the American Bar Association, and others in the selection process? In this landmark book, a leading authority on lower federal court judicial selections tells the riveting story of how nine presidents over a period of fifty-six years have chosen federal judges. Sheldon Goldman has interviewed participants, and he has mined published and unpublished government documents and archives, along with memos, letters, and other documents in the papers of every president from Franklin Roosevelt through Ronald Reagan, to bring to life the judicial selection process. His book is filled with richly drawn and dramatic accounts of each president's use of judicial appointments to further policy, partisan, and personal agendas. Goldman analyzes political and social changes that have occurred over the years and the impact of those changes on the profile of those selected for the bench. His statistical portraits of the backgrounds of each administration's appointees point up the changing face of the federal judiciary. The author also documents the responses of each presidential administration to calls for gender and race diversification of the bench. Casting bright light on the little-known details of judicial selection politics, Picking Federal Judges is sure to become the definitive book on this subject.
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Goldman, Sheldon was born on September 18, 1939 in Bronx, New York, United States. Son of Yehuda and Anne Goldman.
Bachelor summa cum laude, New York University, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy (Woodrow Wilson Dissertation fellow), Harvard University, 1965.
Teaching fellow in government, Harvard, 1963-1964; assistant professor government, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1965-1969; associate professor, U. Massachusetts, 1970-1973; professor political science, U. Massachusetts, since 1974.
(In this landmark book, a leading authority on lower feder...)
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He also has written other works and numerous articles in professional journals including American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, and Judicature and chapters in books He is chair of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 2000–2001. And a member of the Editorial Board, Law & Politics Book Review, 1994–1997.
American Political Science Review, 1981–1985, and American Journal of Political Science, 1979–1982.
Member National Education Association, American Political Science Association, Northeastern Political Science Association, Law and Society Association, American Judicature Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha (Distinguished Teacher award 1988).
Married Marcia Liebeskind, June 16, 1963. Children– Ellen, Jeremy, Sara.