2011. The professorship is currently held by Carol S. Steiker, a specialist in criminal justice policy and capital punishment. The Federal Bar Council awarded Friendly a Certificate of Distinguished Judicial Service posthumously in 1986. The American Law Institute has an award named in memory of Friendly and endowed by his former law clerks. Family Friendly's wife of 55 years died a year before his suicide. He was survived by a son and two daughters. Notable former law clerks David P. Currie (1960–1961), Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Law School Peter B. Edelman (1961–1962), professor of law and co-director, joint degree in law and public policy, Georgetown Law Center Stephen R. Barnett (1962–1963), Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law, emeritus, Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley Pierre N. Leval (1963–1964), judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Michael Boudin (1964–1965), chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Robert M. Berger (1966-1967), partner Mayer Brown & Platt, lecturer in law University of Chicago Law School, adjunct professor of Law Northwestern University Law School and John Marshall School of Law Bruce A. Ackerman (1967–1968), Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale Law School Arthur Raymond Randolph (1969–1970), judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Walter Hellerstein (1970–1971), Francis Shackleford Distinguished Professor of Taxation Law, University of Georgia School of Law Martin Glenn (1971–1972), Judge, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York Lawrence B. Pedowitz (1972–1973), partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Frederick T. Davis (1972–1973), partner, litigation department, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, Paris William Curtis Bryson (1973–1974), judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit James R. Smoot (1974–1975), dean and professor of law, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, The University of Memphis Philip Bobbitt (1975–1976), Thomas M. Macioce Professor of Law, Columbia Law School Ruth Wedgwood (1976–1977), Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy & Director of the International Law and Organization Program, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University; Member, United Nations Human Rights Committee Theodore N. Mirvis (1976–1977), partner, litigation department, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Merrick B. Garland (1977–1978), chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Mary I. Coombs (1978–1979), professor of law, University of Miami School of Law John Roberts (1979–1980), Chief Justice of the United States Marc Wolinsky (1980–1981), partner, litigation department, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Gary Born (1981–1982), partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr Jonathan R. Macey (1982–1983), Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law, Yale Law School David J. Seipp (1982–1983), professor of law, Boston University School of Law Larry D. Kramer (1984–1985), president of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; on leave as Richard E. Lang professor of law and formerly the dean, Stanford Law School Thomas G. Dagger (1986) of AT&T References External links Category:1903 births Category:1986 deaths Category:20th-century American judges Category:Harvard Law School alumni Category:Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Category:Jurists who committed suicide Category:Male suicides Category:Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Category:People from Elmira, New York Category:Lawyers from New York City Category:Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients Category:Suicides in New York City Category:United States court of appeals judges appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower Category:People associated with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton