• Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

  Judge

  1982 – 2011 · 29 yrs

• United States Court of Claims

  Judge

  1978 – 1982 · 4 yrsAppointed by Jimmy Carter

Career

• acting solicitor general

  1977 – present · 49 yrs

• first deputy solicitor general

  1968 – 1978 · 10 yrs

• second assistant to the solicitor general

  1962 – 1968 · 6 yrs

• Office of the Solicitor General

  U.S. Department of Justice

  1959 – 1978 · 19 yrs

• assistant to the solicitor general

  1959 – 1962 · 3 yrs

• Assistant chief, Appellate Section

  Antitrust Divison, U.S. Department of Justice

  1951 – 1959 · 8 yrs

• Attorney, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  and Washington, D.C.

  1946 – 1951 · 5 yrs

• Attorney, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  and Washington, D.C.

  1942 – present · 84 yrs

• U.S. Army

  1942 – 1946 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  New York City

  1940 – 1942 · 2 yrs