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. 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.
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Bridge accomplishments
Honors
ACBL Hall of Fame, Blackwood Award, 2012
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