• Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  Judge

  1985 – present · 41 yrsAppointed by Ronald Reagan

Career

• Chief of Trial Division

  U.S. Court of Claims

  1982 – present · 44 yrs

• Assistant counsel

  Office of Counsel to the President

  1981 – present · 45 yrs

• Special counsel

  U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board

  1981 – 1982 · 1 yr

• Deputy legal counsel

  President-Elect Ronald Reagan

  1980 – 1981 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  Washington, D.C.

  1979 – 1981 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1977 – 1979 · 2 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Warren Burger, Supreme Court of the United States

  1976 – 1977 · 1 yr

• Law clerk

  Hon. Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  1975 – 1976 · 1 yr