• Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

  Judge

  1979 – 2002 · 23 yrsAppointed by Jimmy Carter

Career

• General counsel

  NAACP

  1969 – 1979 · 10 yrs

• Private practice

  1968 – 1969 · 1 yr

• Assistant general counsel

  National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

  1967 – 1968 · 1 yr

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Northern District of Ohio

  1961 – 1967 · 6 yrs

• Private practice

  1959 – 1961 · 2 yrs

• Editor

  Buckeye Review

  1956 – present · 70 yrs

• Executive director, Fair Employment Practices Commission

  1956 – 1959 · 3 yrs

• U.S. Army

  Air Corps

  1945 – 1946 · 1 yr