Peter Edelman

Peter Edelman
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 (1938-01-09) January 9, 1938 (age 87) Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Spouse	Marian Wright ​ (m. 1968)​
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.