• Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

  Judge

  1929 – 1930 · 1 yr

• Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  Judge

  1929 – 1943 · 14 yrs

• Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

  Judge

  1911 – 1911Appointed by William Howard Taft

• Commerce Court

  Judge

  1911 – 1913 · 2 yrsAppointed by William Howard Taft

• Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

  Judge

  1911 – 1929 · 18 yrsAppointed by William Howard Taft

Career

• Judge

  Illinois Appellate Court

  1905 – 1911 · 6 yrs

• Judge

  Illinois Circuit Court, Cook County

  1904 – 1905 · 1 yr

• Professor of law

  University of Chicago

  1902 – 1911 · 9 yrs

• Professor of law

  Northwestern University

  1895 – 1902 · 7 yrs

• Private practice

  1890 – 1895 · 5 yrs

• Parker Fellow (awarded by Harvard University)

  Universities of Berlin and Leipzig

Education