from 1995 to 1996, and at Harvard in 1998. He held the position of Distinguished Visitor from the Judiciary at Georgetown University Law Center from 2000 to 2019 and taught both administrative law and labor law. Silberman received the Charles Fahy Distinguished Adjunct Professor Award for the 2002–2003 academic year. He has also received a Lifetime Service Award (2006) and a Distinguished Service Award (2007) from the Federalist Society chapters of Georgetown and Harvard, respectively. Personal life and death Silberman's first wife, Rosalie "Ricky" Gaull Silberman, co-founder of the Independent Women's Forum, died on February 17, 2007. Together, they had three children, Robert S. Silberman, Kate Fischer, and Anne Otis. His eight grandchildren include the screenwriter and film producer Katie Silberman. Silberman married Patricia Winn Silberman in 2008. Silberman was a close friend of Justice Antonin Scalia since he had recruited Scalia into the Ford administration. Silberman was also a friend of Justice Clarence Thomas and in 1989 encouraged a young and reluctant Thomas to accept a federal judgeship on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Several of his former law clerks have become federal judges, including US Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett. Silberman died on October 2, 2022, ten days before his 87th birthday. See also List of Jewish American jurists List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients References External links 1935 births 2022 deaths 20th-century American diplomats 20th-century American judges 20th-century American Jews Ambassadors of the United States to Yugoslavia American bankers Dartmouth College alumni Georgetown University Law Center faculty Harvard Law School alumni Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Lawyers from Washington, D.C. Military personnel from Pennsylvania People associated with Morrison & Foerster People from York, Pennsylvania Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients United States court of appeals judges appointed by Ronald Reagan United States Deputy Attorneys General University of Hawaiʻi faculty Washington, D.C., Republicans