• District Court, S.D. New York

  Judge

  1976 – 2011 · 35 yrsAppointed by Gerald Ford

Career

• U.S. Magistrate

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

  1971 – 1976 · 5 yrs

• Associate general counsel

  The Overmyer Company

  1969 – 1971 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  New York City

  1968 – 1969 · 1 yr

• Counsel

  New York Life Insurance Company

  1962 – 1968 · 6 yrs

• Private practice

  New York City

  1959 – 1962 · 3 yrs

• Deputy chief

  Attorney General's Special Group on Organized Crime, U.S. Department of Justice

  1958 – 1959 · 1 yr

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Southern District of New York

  1955 – 1958 · 3 yrs

• U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant

  1951 – 1953 · 2 yrs

Education