• Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

  Judge

  2012 – present · 14 yrsAppointed by Barack Hussein Obama 2

• District Court, S.D. Florida

  Judge

  1999 – 2012 · 13 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

Career

• chief

  Appellate Division

  1998 – 1999 · 1 yr

• deputy chief

  Appellate Division

  1996 – 1998 · 2 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Southern District of Florida

  1994 – 1999 · 5 yrs

• Adjunct professor

  University of Miami School of Law

  1990 – present · 36 yrs

• Private practice

  1989 – 1994 · 5 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Sandra Day O'Connor, Supreme Court of the United States

  1988 – 1989 · 1 yr

• Law clerk

  Hon. Thomas Clark, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

  1987 – 1988 · 1 yr

Education