• Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  Judge

  2009 – present · 17 yrsAppointed by Barack Hussein Obama 2

• District Court, S.D. New York

  Judge

  2000 – 2009 · 9 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

Career

• vice dean

  1992 – 1997 · 5 yrs

• Private practice

  New York City

  1992 – 2000 · 8 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Southern District of New York

  1990 – 1992 · 2 yrs

• chief

  Criminal Division

  1990 – 1992 · 2 yrs

• Associate counsel

  Office of Independent Counsel, Iran-Contra investigation

  1988 – 1990 · 2 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Southern District of New York

  1980 – 1983 · 3 yrs

• Professor

  Columbia University School of Law

  1977 – 2000 · 23 yrs

• Law clerk, Hon. William J. Brennan

  Jr., Supreme Court of the United States

  1976 – 1977 · 1 yr

• Law clerk

  Hon. Wilfred Feinberg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  1975 – 1976 · 1 yr

Education