Isaac Lidsky is a lawyer and former child actor. As a law clerk for Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2008-09, he became the first blind US Supreme Court clerk.^[1]

Lidsky came to fame acting in the role of Weasel on Saved by the Bell: The New Class. He later was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa. After he gave up acting, he studied Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Harvard College, graduating with honors in June 1999. In July that year he founded Poindexter Systems, an Internet advertising company, with his brother-in-law Joe Zawadzki and his friend Ted Shergalis.^[2] Lidsky left Poindexter in June 2001 and started studying law at Harvard Law School in Fall 2001. Lidsky was the first student to be named a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law. He graduated magna cum laude in 2004. After law school, Isaac clerked for Judge Thomas Ambro on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He then joined the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division of the Justice Department. In 2.5 years in that position, Isaac argued more than 12 cases on behalf of the U.S. government in federal courts of appeal.

In May 2009, he was named one of four "Temple Bar Scholars" by the American Inns of Court. In that capacity, he will spend a month in London representing the American legal profession as he is exposed to the British legal system and community.

Lidsky is the head of Hope For Vision ^[3]

Lidsky lives with his wife, Dorothy (Johnston) Lidsky, whom he married in 2004.^{[4] [3]}

[edit] References

1. ^ Former Child Actor, Now Blind, Will Begin Stint as O’Connor Law Clerk (Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal, May 27, 2008)
2. ^ Isaac Lidsky (biography, Berkman Center for Internet & Society)
3. ^ ^{a b} Ex-actor to make pitch for eye research (Jorge Valencia, Miami Herald, 27 Sep 2007)
4. ^ Lidsky Family Seeks Cure for Eye Disease (Ana Veciano-Suarez, Miami Herald, June 8, 2004)

[edit] External links

• Isaac Lidsky (IMDB)
• Former Child Star Now a SCOTUS Clerk (MSNBC)