Background
Silk, Thomas was born on December 12, 1937 in Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Thomas and Alice Genevieve (Beck) Silk.
Silk, Thomas was born on December 12, 1937 in Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Thomas and Alice Genevieve (Beck) Silk.
University of California at Berkeley (Bachelor of Arts, 1959). Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California (Bachelor of Laws, 1963). Adjunct Professor, Master of Public Administration in Nonprofit Organization Management, University of San Francisco, since 1984.
Worked at Silk, Adler & Colvin, A Law Corporation (San Francisco, California) specializing in International Charitable Giving, Corporate, Tax, Non-Profit Organizations, Public and Charitable Foundations. Admitted to the bar, 1964, California, United States. Supreme Court, United States.
District Court, Northern District of California and United States.
Court of Appeals, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Circuits. Adjunct Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California (1990).
Director, Comparative Nonprofit Law Project, The Asia Foundation, 1995. Author: "The Legal Framework of the Nonprofit Sector in the United States", 1994.
Appellate Attorney, United States.
Department of Justice, Tax Division, 1964-1968. Member: Bar Association of San Francisco. State Bar of California.
American Bar Association (Member: Exempt Organizations Committee, Taxation Section, 1976.
Board of Directors: Jenifer Altman Foundation, Center for Citizen Initiatives, Saint Francis Foundation).
Member: Bar Association of San Francisco. State Bar of California. American Bar Association (Member: Exempt Organizations Committee, Taxation Section, 1976.
Board of Directors: Jenifer Altman Foundation, Center for Citizen Initiatives, Saint Francis Foundation).
Married Arlene Schlaifer, September 1959 (divorced). Married Susan Clark, 1979 (divorced). 1 child, Nicole Amory.