• Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

  Judge

  1997 – present · 29 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

• District Court, S.D. Florida

  Judge

  1985 – 1997 · 12 yrsAppointed by Ronald Reagan

Career

• U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida

  1982 – 1985 · 3 yrs

• chief

  1980 – 1982 · 2 yrs

• Organized Crime Strike Force, U.S. Department of Justice

  1978 – 1982 · 4 yrs

• deputy chief

  1978 – 1979 · 1 yr

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Eastern District of New York

  1975 – 1978 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  New York City

  1974 – 1975 · 1 yr

• Law clerk, Hon. John R. Bartels

  U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York

  1971 – 1973 · 2 yrs

Education