Martin L. Fierman was born in 1944 and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Emory University School of Law in 1967 and entered military service in August of that year, providing legal services while assigned to the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate at Fort Benning, Georgia. He served a 12-month tour of duty in Vietnam where he had the opportunity to defend servicemen charged with offenses in special courts martial.
