Dan Goldman, U.S. Congress

Daniel Sachs Goldman is a trial attorney and was a legal analyst serving as majority counsel in the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. In November 2023, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the 10th New York Congressional District. It takes in part of Lower Manhattan and part of Brooklyn.

Goldman attended Sidwell Friends School in D.C., where his mother, Susan Sachs Goldman, served as chairwoman until 2000. He earned his undergraduate degree at Yale University and his law degree from Stanford.

During his decade working at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, Goldman took on a number of high -profile cases, including prosecution of a number of Genovese mobsters. He left that position in 2017 to become a legal analyst for NBC and an opinion contributor to The Daily Beast. In March 2019, he was hired as general counsel for the House Oversight Committee and soon joined the Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump.

Goldman has married twice. In 2002, he married Olympic diver and Canada native, Anne Montminy; they divorced in 2004. In 2013, he married Corinne Levy; they have five children.

Goldman is a descendant of a prominent Jewish family known for their accomplishments and their philanthropy. His paternal grandparents, Richard N. Goldman and Rhoda Haas Goldman (a descendant of Levi Strauss), established the Goldman Fund, a foundation that donated over half a billion dollars to a variety of nonprofit organizations. Along with his sister Alice and brother Bill, Goldman created the Richard W. Goldman Family Foundation in memory of their father, a federal prosecutor who died when they were children. Bill Goldman, a college professor, died in 2017 when the small plane he was piloting crashed; his six-year-old daughter Marie, who was also on the plane, died days later.