Joseph S. Iseman

Joseph S. Iseman (May 29, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American attorney and educator known for his work with National Television, Children's Television Workshop, also known as Sesame Workshop, and Bennington College (where he stepped in as acting president in 1976), as well as the American University of Paris, where he served for a time as the vice chair. As a lawyer at the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Iseman notably managed the estates of composer Cole Porter, writer Vladimir Nabokov, writer Jean Stafford, poet Robert Lowell, writer A. J. Liebling, artist Robert Motherwell, writer and historian Theodore H. White, Saturday Review and its editor Norman Cousins, and playwright Arthur Miller. He was also the father of New York City businessman Frederick Iseman.

Education and early career Iseman attended the Ethical Culture School in New York, earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1937, and his J.D. from Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut in 1941.

Iseman worked as an investigator and clerk for Commercial Factors Corporation from 1937 to 1938. After graduating from Yale, he worked as an attorney until he joined the United States Army during World War II from 1942 to 1946. He obtained the rank of captain in the Army Air Force.