Peter Edelman

Who is Peter Edelman?

Peter B. Edelman is a lawyer, policy maker, and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of poverty, welfare, juvenile justice, and constitutional law. He worked for Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and for the Clinton Administration, where he resigned to protest Clinton's signing the welfare reform legislation. Edelman grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father worked as a lawyer and his mother worked as a homemaker. Edelman is married to Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund.