• Supreme Court of the United States

  Chief Justice

  1993 – 2020 · 27 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

• District Court, District of Columbia

  Judge

  1980 – 1993 · 13 yrsAppointed by Jimmy Carter

Career

• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences

  1977 – 1978 · 1 yr

• member

  national board of directors

  1974 – 1980 · 6 yrs

• general counsel

  1973 – 1980 · 7 yrs

• Professor

  Columbia Law School

  1972 – 1980 · 8 yrs

• American Civil Liberties Union

  1972 – 1980 · 8 yrs

• counsel

  Women's Rights Project

  1972 – 1980 · 8 yrs

• Professor

  Rutgers Law School

  1963 – 1972 · 9 yrs

• associate director

  1962 – 1963 · 1 yr

• Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure

  1961 – 1963 · 2 yrs

• research associate

  1961 – 1962 · 1 yr

• Legal secretary, Hon. Edmund L. Palmieri

  U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

  1959 – 1961 · 2 yrs

Education