Janet Friedman Martel (born February 26, 1943) is an American bridge player from Davis, California. [1] A graduate of University of California, Berkeley, she is a retired attorney and a past president of the United States Bridge Federation (USBF). [1] 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. [2] 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. [3] 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. [a]
She was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2012. [5]