Randy Linda Sturman

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Randy Sturman Obituary

Athens - Randy Linda Sturman was born July 22, 1956 in New York, N.Y. She grew up in Hallandale, Fla. She graduated college and Law School at the University of Florida, and earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She taught at UCSD, and for the last two years, at UGA in the School of Law, the College of Public Health, and the Department of Religion and Anthropology.
She interned at the United States Supreme Court on the staff of the Chief Justice. She also interned at the United States House of Representatives on the staff of Congressman William Lehman, and was an Assistant District Attorney under Janet Reno in Dade County, Florida. She was a trial lawyer in private practice.
She is the author of the book Six Lives in Jerusalem, which concerns end-of-life decisions in Israel. She was currently working on a book, Israel and the Bible- Then and Now, to be published by Oxford University Press. She also authored articles and reviews in law and anthropology journals and gave over twenty-five lectures and papers at academic and non-academic institutions in the United States and Canada.
She served on the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine Veterans Hospital Ethics Committee and on its Community Advisory Board. She also served on the Patient Advisory Council of the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine and on the Institute of Health Law Studies at California Western School of Law. In 2000, she was awarded a NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department on Geropsychiatry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
She was married for twenty years to Richard Elliott Friedman. They have two daughters, Jesse, 18, a student at Wesleyan University, and Alexa, 13, a student at Clarke Middle School. She is also survived by her parents, Stanley and Thelma Sturman, and by two brothers, Warren and Mark Sturman, and a sister, Linda Segall.
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Published by Athens Banner-Herald on May 5, 2008.

Memories and Condolences
for Randy Sturman

5 Entries

Stan & Laurel Schwartz

May 6, 2008

We were saddened to read of Randy's passing. She contributed much to the San Diego community. May her memory always be with you and may friends and family be a comfort to you.

Paul Wallach

May 5, 2008

It is with great sadness that I learned of the passing of a friend whose company I enjoyed greatly during our years at Ramah Darom. Randy was intelligent, warm, funny, engaging, and beautiful, inside and out. I always loved learning about her academic activities and respect the breadth of knowledge that she readily shared. I will miss her very much. Rae and Miriam join me in extending to Dick, Jesse, and Alexa our deepest condolences. With love, Paul

Fran Immerman

May 5, 2008

Dear Dick,

I am so sorry to learn about Randy's death, may her memory be a blessing. I feel lucky to have crossed paths with her at Ramah Darom. Her intelligence and spirit were radiant. To you and your daughters, HaMakom yinenchem etchem b'toch shaar avlei Zion v'Yerushaliyim.

eli havivi

May 5, 2008

Randy was my friend - She and I walked the hills at camp together. For seven years she and Dick and I sat out, virtually every night, on our porch at Ramah Darom together, telling jokes "Dick, tell the one about...." drinking tea, making sure the cat wouldn't get out, celebrating her birthday every summer with a party, and in earlier years, watching Noa and Ally in the bathtub together, or sleeping over in one room or the connected other. We took days off together, and talked about our kids together.
Randy was smart, kind, funny, self-effacing, simple and just human, so supportive of Dick, always willing to talk to me, or clarify some point or have a discussion with 20-year old counselors, she was beautiful, and amazingly comfortable with her wigs and her body after she got cancer. She was a great mom I loved watching her interact with Jessie and Ally. I'll miss her. Hugs to Dick and the girls. and to each other.
eli havivi

Bernstein Funeral Home

May 5, 2008

Offering our deepest condolences during this difficult time.

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