• District Court, W.D. Tennessee

  Judge

  2014 – present · 12 yrsAppointed by Barack Hussein Obama 2

Career

• university counsel

  2002 – 2014 · 12 yrs

• University of Memphis

  1999 – 2014 · 15 yrs

• senior attorney

  1999 – 2002 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  1997 – 1999 · 2 yrs

• vice president

  1997 – present · 29 yrs

• Memphis Race Relations and Diversity Institute

  1996 – 1997 · 1 yr

• director of programs

  1996 – present · 30 yrs

• Private practice

  1991 – 1995 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  Washington, D.C.

  1988 – 1991 · 3 yrs

• Law clerk, Hon. Julia S. Gibbons

  U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee

  1987 – 1988 · 1 yr