Stanley M. Levy, Administrative Law Judge, 90, Washington Post
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Stanley M. Levy Administrative Law Judge
Stanley M. Levy, 90, an administrative law judge for the Federal Maritime
Commission from 1971 until his retirement in 1981, died April 16, 2009, at
his home in Riderwood, a retirement community in Silver Spring. The cause of
death was aortic dissection, a tear of the aortic wall.
During the 1950s and 1960s, he was a staff lawyer with the old Office of
Price Stabilization, the Justice and Navy departments and the Small Business
Administration. During the late 1960s, he was a special assistant to the
commissioners for the old Federal Power Commission.
Stanley Mortimer Levy was born in New York and raised in South Bend, Ind. He
received a bachelor's degree in 1940 from Indiana University and a law
degree in 1948 from Cornell University. He was an Army Air Forces veteran of
World War II.
From 1949 to 1951, he was a law professor at the University of Arkansas in
Fayetteville before moving to Silver Spring. During his career, he was an
adjunct law professor at George Washington University.
Judge Levy was a member of the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia and
the Lincoln Roundtable. He wrote "A. Lincoln: The Man" (2006), a biography
of Lincoln before he became president.
Since 2002, he had hosted a weekly television show, "Potpourri with Stan
Levy," which aired at Riderwood.
Judge Levy was board president of the National Children's Center, which
provides services to mentally disabled children and their families, and
chairman of the board of advisers of Columbia Bank. He was a Mason, a clown
with the Shriners Clown Corps and a member of the National Sojourners, a
Masonic service organization.
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Harriet Zinneman Levy, of Silver
Spring; three children, Bobbi Dodge of Phoenix, Marilyn Murrmann of
Kerrville, Tex., and Andy Levy of Highland; a brother, Allen Farrar of
Silver Spring; five grandchildren; and two great-grandsons
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Lauren Wiseman