Janet Friedman Martel (born February 26, 1943) is an American bridge player from Davis, California. A graduate of University of California, Berkeley, she is a retired attorney and a past president of the United States Bridge Federation (USBF). She is married to Chip Martel, a world champion bridge player. She was previously married to Lew Stansby, another world champion player. Her parents, Milton and Rose Friedman, were both free market economists.Alan Truscott's column in the NY Times, November 23, 1982 Her brother, David D. Friedman, is an anarcho-capitalist theorist.
Martel has won seven national championships, or national-rated events at North American Bridge Championships meets. Playing under the name Jan Stansby with Pat Leary in 1974, she won the Whitehead Women's Pairs, the premier ACBL annual championship for women pairs.
She was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2012.
Bridge accomplishments
Honors
ACBL Hall of Fame, Blackwood Award, 2012"Induction by Year" . Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.Foundation for the Preservation and Advancement of Bridge Blackwood Award.
ACBL Honorary Member, 2018
Wins
North American Bridge Championships (7) Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 1974 Grand National Teams (1) 2009 Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1986 Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 1994 Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1986 Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2001 North American Pairs Flight A (1) 1988
Runners-up
North American Bridge Championships (7) Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 1988 Grand National Teams (1) 2006 Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1996 Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (3) 1980, 1985, 1987 Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2004
Notes
References
External links – with video interview
ACBL NABC Database - Jan Martel