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{{Short description|American judge}}
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| office        = Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of California]]
| term_start    = July 17, 1952
| term_end      = August 3, 1953
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| appointer     = [[List of federal judges appointed by Harry S. Truman|Harry S. Truman]]
| predecessor   = [[Herbert Wilson Erskine]]
| successor     = [[Oliver Deveta Hamlin Jr.]]
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| birth_name    = Monroe Mark Friedman
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1895|10|10}}
| birth_place   = [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]]
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| death_place   = [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], [[California]]
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'''Monroe Mark Friedman''' (October 10, 1895 – November 12, 1978) was briefly a [[United States federal judge|United States district judge]] of the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of California]] and later a [[California]] state judge.
==Education and career==
Born in [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]], Friedman received an [[Bachelor of Arts|Artium Baccalaureus]] degree from the [[University of California, Berkeley]] in 1916 and a [[Bachelor of Laws]] from [[UC Berkeley School of Law]] in 1920. He was in private practice in [[Alameda County, California|Alameda County]], [[California]] from 1920 to 1952.<ref name="auto">{{FJC Bio|2708|nid=1390391|name=Monroe Mark Friedman<!--(1895–1978)-->}}</ref>
==Federal judicial service==
Friedman received a [[recess appointment]] from President [[Harry S. Truman]] on July 17, 1952, to a seat on the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of California]] vacated by Judge [[Herbert Wilson Erskine]]. He was nominated to the same position by President Truman on January 9, 1953. His nomination was withdrawn by President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] on July 24, 1953. His service terminated on August 3, 1953, after his nomination was not confirmed by the [[United States Senate]], with the [[Adjournment sine die|sine die adjournment]] of the First Session of the [[83rd United States Congress]].<ref name="auto"/>
==Later career==
Friedman returned to private practice in Alameda County from 1953 to 1959. He was Chairman of the Hearing Board of the Bay Area Air Pollution District from 1957 to 1959. He was Presiding Judge of the [[Superior Court of California]] for Alameda County from 1959 to 1971, and a senior judge of that court from 1971 to 1975.<ref name="auto"/>
==Death==
Friedman died on November 12, 1978, in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], California.<ref name="auto"/>
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* {{FJC Bio|2708|nid=1390391|name=Monroe Mark Friedman<!--(1895–1978)-->}}
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[[Category:1895 births]]
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[[Category:Lawyers from Minneapolis]]
[[Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni]]
[[Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California]]
[[Category:United States district court judges appointed by Harry S. Truman]]
[[Category:20th-century American judges]]
[[Category:Unsuccessful recess appointments to United States federal courts]]
[[Category:California state court judges]]
[[Category:UC Berkeley School of Law alumni]]