Bernard Alvin Friedman (born September 23, 1943) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Bernard A. Friedman
Michigan Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Born 1943 in Detroit, MI
FJC ID: 800
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 5/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 12/year
Michigan Eastern District Court · 1988–2009
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Michigan District Court, Forty-Eighth Judicial DistrictJudge · 1982–1988
- Private practice, Southfield, Michigan1974–1982
- Private practice, Detroit, Michigan1970–1974
JAG CorpsU.S. Army Reserve lieutenant · 1968–1973- Wayne County, MichiganFelony trial prosecutor · 1969–1970
- JAG CorpsU.S. Army lieutenant · 1967–1968
Appointments
1988–2009 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Education
- Detroit College of Law (now Michigan State University College of Law)J.D. · 1968