• Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

  Judge

  1998 – present · 28 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

Career

• Private practice

  1981 – 1998 · 17 yrs

• U.S. attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia

  1977 – 1981 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  1975 – 1977 · 2 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Southern District of West Virginia

  1970 – 1974 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  1969 – 1970 · 1 yr

• Law clerk, Hon. John A. Field

  U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia

  1968 – 1969 · 1 yr

Education