• Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

  Judge

  1925 – 1942 · 17 yrsAppointed by Calvin Coolidge

• District Court, E.D. Louisiana

  Judge

  1909 – 1925 · 16 yrsAppointed by Theodore Roosevelt

Career

• dean

  1920 – 1927 · 7 yrs

• Professor of law

  Tulane University Law School

  1912 – 1927 · 15 yrs

• U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana

  1908 – present · 118 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Eastern District of Louisiana

  1905 – 1908 · 3 yrs

• U.S. Army lieutenant

  1898 – 1899 · 1 yr

Education