| Edward Biester | |
| Birth Name: | Edward George Biester Jr. |
| Birth Date: | 5 January 1931 |
| Birth Place: | Trevose, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Office: | Judge of the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas (Seventh Judicial District) |
| Term Start: | 1980 |
| Term End: | 2006 Senior Judge: 2001-2006 |
| Office1: | 38th Attorney General of Pennsylvania |
| Governor1: | Richard Thornburgh |
| Term Start1: | January 16, 1979[1] |
| Term End1: | May 20, 1980 |
| Preceded1: | J. Justin Blewitt Jr. |
| Succeeded1: | Harvey Bartle III |
| State2: | Pennsylvania |
| District2: | 8th |
| Term Start2: | January 3, 1967 |
| Term End2: | January 3, 1977 |
| Preceded2: | Willard S. Curtin |
| Succeeded2: | Peter H. Kostmayer |
| Party: | Republican |
| Education: | Wesleyan University (BS) Temple University (JD) |
Edward George Biester Jr. (born January 5, 1931) is a retired Republican politician and judge who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, from 1967 to 1977.[2]
Biester graduated from George School in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1948, Wesleyan University in 1952, and Temple University School of Law in 1955.[2] He was Assistant District Attorney for Bucks County, Pennsylvania 1958 through 1964.
He was elected as a Republican to the 90th and to the four succeeding Congresses.[3] He was not a candidate for reelection in 1976. In 1977, he was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board. He was Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1980.[2]
He served as a judge on the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas (7th Judicial District) from 1980 to 2006 and was senior judge from 2001 to 2006.[2] [4] He has been a member of the Office of Military Commissions in the Department of Defense since 2003.
In September 2004 he was appointed to the United States Court of Military Commission Review.[2]
In April 2007, Biester joined JAMS, The Resolution Experts, as a full-time mediator and arbitrator at the JAMS Philadelphia Resolution Center at the Bell Atlantic Tower on Arch Street.