Dan Goldman

Daniel Sachs Goldman (born February 26, 1976) is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 10th congressional district since 2023. A Democrat, Goldman previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York for a decade, prosecuting cases involving organized crime, racketeering, money laundering, and securities fraud, including the insider trading conviction of Billy Walters. He rose to national prominence as the lead counsel for House Democrats during the first impeachment inquiry and trial of President Donald Trump in 2019–2020, presenting arguments on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

Goldman graduated from Yale College with a B.A. in 1998 and from Stanford Law School with a J.D. with distinction in 2005, after which he clerked for federal judges Charles R. Breyer and Robert D. Sack. Prior to entering politics, he worked as a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and maintained a private practice focused on white-collar defense and policy. Elected to Congress in 2022 after winning the Democratic primary for the open seat vacated by Jerry Nadler, Goldman serves on the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government and the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, where he has continued to scrutinize executive actions and intelligence matters.

Goldman was raised in a Conservative Jewish family, reflecting Ashkenazi Jewish heritage predominant on both sides. His paternal ancestry is primarily German Jewish, with additional Alsatian/French Jewish, English Jewish, and Czech Jewish elements. On his maternal side, grandparents Sidney Stanley Sachs and Betty Kossow were Jewish immigrants from Russia and Ukraine, representing more recent Eastern European Jewish migration to the United States.

Daniel Sachs Goldman was born on February 26, 1976, in Washington, D.C., into a prominent Jewish family with deep ties to law and philanthropy. His paternal grandparents, Richard Goldman and Rhoda Haas Goldman, were heirs to the Levi Strauss fortune and notable philanthropists, while his father, Richard Goldman, served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice. Goldman spent his childhood in Washington, D.C., attending the elite Sidwell Friends School, a Quaker institution known for educating children of political leaders, graduating in 1994.

Goldman was born on February 26, 1976, in Washington, D.C., to Richard W. Goldman, a federal prosecutor, and Susan Sachs Goldman. His father died when Goldman was a child. Raised in a Conservative Jewish family, Goldman has two siblings: a sister, Alice, and a younger brother, William Sachs Goldman, who died at age 38 in a plane crash in Sonoma County, California. In memory of their father, Goldman and his siblings established the Richard W. Goldman Family Foundation.