SEND AN E-MAIL TO THIS FELLOWElliott Bredhoff
Elliott Bredhoff, a Charter Emeritus Fellow, passed away on November 2, 2004. He practiced employee benefits and labor law with Bredhoff & Kaiser where he represented many unions and union plans. He was counsel for the National Industrial Group Pension Plan. From the 1950s to the 1980s, he represented the United Steelworkers in negotiating collective bargaining agreements with steel companies.
Bredhoff was born in New York City and graduated from City College of New York. He was a communications officer with the Army Air Forces during World War II. In 1949, he graduated from Yale Law School, where he was editor of the law journal.
After coming to Washington, he was assistant general counsel to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, working for Arthur J. Goldberg, who later became a Supreme Court justice.
