Howard Friedman is Elected President of the Ajcommittee

Howard E. Friedman of Encino, Calif, a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Loeb and Loeb, was elected 19th national president of the American Jewish Committee today at the organization’s 77th annual meeting at the New York Hilton Hotel.

He succeeds Maynard Wishner of Chicago who served three years in the presidential post, and who today was elected an honorary president.

Friedman, who is a business trial attorney and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, served as Deputy Attorney General for the State of California from 1955 to 1957. In that post, he was involved in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that involved precedent-making litigation between the states of California and Arizona over the use of Colorado River water.

An active community leader, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation Council of Los Angeles, and of the Business Development Center of Southern California, formerly known as the Interracial Council for Business Opportunity. He is honorary chairman of the Board of Overseers of Hebrew Union College’s California School, vice chairman of HUC’s Board of Governors, and a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Judaism.

A native of Chicago, Friedman attended the University of Oklahoma, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received the Silver Letseizer Award as outstanding male graduate. He earned a Master of Arts degree in political science at the University of Chicago and a law degree at Yale University, where he was Note Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Friedman was a captain in the Air Force, serving in the Judge Advocate’s Division. He was also a teaching fellow at Stanford University Law School.