• District Court, W.D. North Carolina

  Judge

  1967 – 2002 · 35 yrsAppointed by Lyndon B. Johnson

Career

• Private practice

  1956 – 1967 · 11 yrs

• U.S. representative from North Carolina

  1950 – 1957 · 7 yrs

• State representative

  North Carolina

  1947 – 1949 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1946 – 1950 · 4 yrs

• U.S. Naval Reserve lieutenant junior grade

  1944 – 1946 · 2 yrs

• Prosecutor

  Rutherford County North Carolina Recorder's Court

  1941 – 1943 · 2 yrs

• City attorney

  1940 – 1943 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  1937 – 1944 · 7 yrs

Education