Morris I. Leibman

Morris I. Leibman (died April 21, 1992) was an American attorney. He was a partner at Sidley Austin and the founder of United States Institute of Peace and a Chicago-based think tank called the National Strategy Forum. Leibman served on the Board of Trustees of Loyola University Chicago from 1971 to 1981; he was the board's first Jewish member and served mainly with Jesuits earning him the nickname "the Jewish Jesuit."^[1][2] He graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1933.^[3] He served as a civilian aide-at-large to the United States Secretary of the Army from 1964 to 1979,^[1] and he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.^[4]