Patricia Winn Silberman: Who Is Laurence Silberman’s Second Wife?

Patricia Winn Silberman is the second wife of aLaurence Silberman, an American lawyer, diplomat, jurist, and government official who served as a United States Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1985 until his demise on Oct. 2, 2022.

Patricia and Laurence tied the knot on January 5, 2008 and they have three children: Robert Steven Silberman, Katherine DeBoer Fischer, and Anne Gaull Oti.

Much is not known about Patricia.

However, her late husband served six months of active duty in the U.S. Army (five and a half years reserve) and attended the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1961 with a Bachelor of Laws degree.

He worked in the private sector as a partner at the law firms Moore, Silberman & Schulze in Honolulu and Morrison & Foerster and Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C.

He also served as Executive Vice President of Crocker National Bank in San Francisco.

In government, he worked as;

An attorney in the National Labor Relations Board’s appellate section,

• Solicitor of Labor from 1969 to 1970, and as
• Undersecretary of Labor from 1970 to 1973.

As Solicitor, he was largely responsible for developing the requirement of goals and timetables as an enforcement device for the affirmative action order.

Later, he regretted his stance, writing, “Our use of numerical standards in pursuit of equal opportunity has led to the very quotas guaranteeing equal results that we initially wished to avoid.”