• District Court, E.D. Virginia

  Judge

  2002 – present · 24 yrsAppointed by George W. Bush

Career

• Judge

  Circuit Court of Virginia, Nineteenth Judicial Circuit

  1998 – 2002 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  1994 – 1998 · 4 yrs

• Director

  U.S. Marshal Service, U.S. Department of Justice

  1992 – 1993 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1991 – 1992 · 1 yr

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

  1986 – 1991 · 5 yrs

• Commonwealth attorney

  1980 – 1986 · 6 yrs

• Private practice

  1979 – present · 47 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Eastern District of Virginia

  1978 – 1979 · 1 yr

• Assistant commonwealth attorney

  1974 – 1979 · 5 yrs

Education