• Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

  Judge

  1982 – 2004 · 22 yrsAppointed by Ronald Reagan

• District Court, N.D. Ohio

  Judge

  1970 – 1982 · 12 yrsAppointed by Richard Nixon

Career

• U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio

  1969 – 1970 · 1 yr

• Special counsel to the attorney general

  State of Ohio

  1964 – 1968 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  1960 – 1969 · 9 yrs

• City legal consultant

  1960 – 1964 · 4 yrs

• Judge

  Cuyahoga County Ohio Court of Common Pleas

  1958 – 1959 · 1 yr

• Director

  Ohio Department of Liquor Control

  1957 – 1958 · 1 yr

• Assistant attorney general

  State of Ohio

  1951 – 1957 · 6 yrs

• Private practice

  1948 – 1951 · 3 yrs

• U.S. Air Force Reserve colonel

  1946 – 1972 · 26 yrs

• U.S. Army

  Air Corps

  1942 – 1946 · 4 yrs