• District Court, S.D. California

  Judge

  2003 – present · 23 yrsAppointed by George W. Bush

Career

• U.S. Magistrate Judge

  U.S. District Court, Southern District of California

  1998 – 2003 · 5 yrs

• senior financial litigation counsel

  1996 – 1998 · 2 yrs

• senior counsel for asset forfeiture

  1994 – 1996 · 2 yrs

• chief

  Asset Forfeiture Unit

  1987 – 1994 · 7 yrs

• U.S. Army Reserve

  1981 – present · 45 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Southern District of California

  1981 – 1998 · 17 yrs

• U.S. Army

  JAG Corps

  1978 – 1981 · 3 yrs

• U.S. Army Reserve

  1974 – 1978 · 4 yrs