United States Court of Claims Nomination of Daniel M. Friedman To Be Chief Judge.

The President today announced that he will nominate Daniel M. Friedman, of Washington, D.C., to be Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Claims. He would replace Wilson Cowen, who has retired.

Friedman was born February 8, 1916, in New York City. He received an A.B. from Columbia College in 1933 and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1940. He served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946.

From 1940 to 1942, Friedman practiced law, and from 1946 to 1951, he was on the legal staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission. From 1951 to 1959, he was an attorney in the Appellate Section of the Antitrust Division at the Justice Department.

Since 1959 Friedman has worked in the Office of the Solicitor General at the Justice Department, and since 1968 he has been First Deputy Solicitor General.