Rosalie (Ricky) Gaull Silberman
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Rosalie (Ricky) Gaull Silberman (1937 – February 18, 2007) was a conservative American activist who co-founded the Independent Women's Forum together with Barbara Olsen.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Jackson, Michigan, Silberman graduated in government studies, with honors, from Smith College in 1958. She met her husband-to-be, future federal Judge Laurence H. Silberman, in 1955 at a college mixer during summer school at Harvard.
Survivors include her husband of 49 years; three children, Robert Silberman of Potomac, Md., Katherine Balaban of Bethesda, Md., and Anne Otis of Hartford, Conn.; and eight grandchildren. [1]
[edit] Career
Silberman raised three children while the family lived in Hawaii during the 1960s, but she also worked as a teacher in suburban Washington before getting involved in politics and public affairs.
President Nixon appointed her to the Presidential Commission for the Education of Disadvantaged Children, and she worked as a press secretary for U.S. Sen. Robert Packwood (R-Ore.). When the Silbermans moved to San Francisco in 1979, she did development work for the San Francisco Conservatory.
In 1984, President Reagan appointed her to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where she served until 1995.
From 1995 to 2000, she was executive director of the Office of Congressional Compliance, an independent authority established by Congress to oversee the new law requiring that Congress abide by many of the same workplace regulations that covered the rest of the nation.
In 2001, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld appointed her to the Defense Department Advisory Commission on the Status of Women. She served as women's forum board member and chairman emeritus until her death.
Silberman helped edit The Real Anita Hill, a book by then-conservative activist David Brock.
[edit] Death
Silberman died of complications from breast cancer on Sunday, February 18, 2007 at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. She was 69.
