The Story of Dan Butler - The Jewish Judge From Squirrel Hill

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🗓️ 2 April 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Dan Butler is a District Judge in the Municipal Court of Pittsburgh, as well as on Pittsburgh’s specialized, Domestic Violence Court. He is also a judicial law clerk, a prosecutor, a family court hearing officer, and a family court meditator. Dan is an active Board Member of many charitable organizations and is Past Chairman of the Holocaust Commission of Greater Pittsburgh, and is an Executive Board member of the Orthodox Union.

He has lectured thousands of times around the country from Radio City Music Hall to the Vermont legislature. He draws on his experiences as a father, grappling with the tragic loss of his son, a syndicated weekly columnist, a securities salesman, a college professor, a retail store manager, and a regional director for the NCSY.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Meaningful People podcast.
0:04.4	We sat down this week with Judge Dan Butler.
0:08.2	We spoke about so many interesting topics.
0:11.2	Boy, the life he has lived and continues to live is amazing.
0:15.0	Besides, we're being a judge for decades, having his hand in, you know, resolving
0:19.7	and mediating so many divorces, not just in a secular world, but in the Jewish world.
0:24.6	Dan lives in Squirrel Hill, a small residential neighborhood in Pittsburgh.
0:30.0	Where the tree of life shooting, the tree of life synagogue shooting happened.
0:34.2	We talk all about that, surviving that, thriving through that bouncing back
0:38.0	from that in that community.
0:40.1	In addition, Dan has lost his son, Mikey, to a terrible disease.
0:45.6	We touch so many different topics and there's overall a ton of inspiration and
0:49.5	ton to learn from in this episode.
0:51.5	So I hope you go ahead and listen and enjoy the rest of this episode.
1:00.2	Welcome to the Meaningful People podcast.
1:02.8	The podcast where we talk to people who are meaningful, yeah, that sounds good.
1:08.7	Judge Dan Butler, yeah.
1:11.0	You're the first, I think I could be wrong.
1:12.9	I'm always wrong.
1:13.9	I think you're the first judge that we're having on meaningful people.
1:16.7	Maybe it'll start a whole new thing.
1:18.0	Yeah, there are other judges that you think we should have.
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