Garment, Leonard

Biographical Note

• 1924, May 11: Born, Brooklyn, N.Y.
• 1942 - 1943 : 1945 - 1946 : Attended Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y.
• 1949: Graduated, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, N.Y. Admitted to bar, New York
• 1949 - 1968 : Attorney, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, & Alexander (originally Mudge, Stern, Williams, & Tucker), New York, N.Y.
• 1951: Married Grace Albert (died 1976)
• 1969 - 1974 : Special consultant to President Richard M. Nixon
• 1973 - 1974 : Acting counsel to President Richard M. Nixon
• 1974: Assistant to President Gerald R. Ford
• 1975: Attorney, Trubin, Sillcocks, Edelman, & Knapp, New York, N.Y.
• 1975 - 1977 : United States representative, United Nations Human Rights Commission, and counselor to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations
• 1976 - 1980 : Attorney, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, & Alexander, New York, N.Y.
• 1976 - 1988 : Chairman, Commission on the Federal Judiciary
• 1979 - 1980 : Vice chairman, Second Circuit Nominating Commission
• 1980: Married Suzanne Weaver
• 1980 - 1993 : Attorney, Dickstein, Shapiro, & Morin, Washington, D.C.
• 1993 - 1995 : Attorney, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, & Alexander, Washington, D.C., office
• 1995 - 1998 : Attorney, Dechert, Price, & Rhoads, Washington, D.C.
• 1997: Published Crazy Rhythm: My Journey from Brooklyn, Jazz, and Wall Street to Nixon's White House, Watergate, and Beyond... (New York: Times Books. 418 pp.)
• 1998 - : Attorney, Verner, Liipfert, Bernard, McPherson, & Hand, Washington, D.C.

From the guide to the Leonard Garment Papers, 1949-1997, (bulk 1969-1997), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)