Sheldon Goldman
Sheldon Goldman is a Distinguished Professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of Picking Federal Judges and The Federal Courts as a Political System,. He also has written other works and numerous articles in professional journals including American [Political Science Review], Journal of Politics, and Judicature and chapters in books. He is chair of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 2000–2001; and a member of the Editorial Board, Law & Politics Book Review, 1994–1997; American Political Science Review, 1981–1985, and American Journal of Political Science, 1979–1982.
Goldman received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association in 2006.
He graduated from New York University and Harvard University.