Earl Judah Silbert (March 8, 1936 – September 6, 2022) was an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1974 to 1979.
He collaborated with Donald E. Campbell and Seymour Glanzer in obtaining indictments of the five burglars and two leading co-conspirators (G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt) in September 1972.
[2] Following Watergate, Silbert became interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia in January 1974, before being confirmed to the role in October 1974.
[5] Silbert later represented Michael Abbell, a former U.S. Justice Department prosecutor who then became a defense attorney for Colombia's notorious Cali cartel and who was eventually sentenced to five years in prison for his involvement in drug trafficking.
[2] In 2009, the Council for Court Excellence Justice Potter Stewart Award was presented to Silbert for his work to improve the judicial system, both as a United States Attorney and subsequently in private practice.