Peter Edelman | |
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.jpg) Edelman in 2014 | |
| Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation | |
| In office 1994 – September 1996 | |
| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | David T. Ellwood |
| Succeeded by | Margaret Hamburg |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Peter Benjamin Edelman January 9, 1938 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3, including Jonah and Ezra |
| Education | Harvard University (AB, LLB) |
Peter Benjamin Edelman (born January 9, 1938) is an American legal scholar. He is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of poverty, welfare, juvenile justice, and constitutional law. He 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. Edelman was one of the founders and president of the board of the New Israel Fund.