• Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

  Judge

  1974 – 1994 · 20 yrsAppointed by Gerald Ford

• District Court, N.D. Illinois

  Judge

  1971 – 1975 · 4 yrsAppointed by Richard Nixon

Career

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

  1970 – 1971 · 1 yr

• Judge

  Illinois Circuit Court, Eighteenth Judicial Circuit

  1964 – 1970 · 6 yrs

• State's attorney

  1959 – 1964 · 5 yrs

• First assistant state's attorney

  1956 – 1958 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  Illinois

  1953 – 1964 · 11 yrs

• Assistant state's attorney

  1952 – 1956 · 4 yrs

• Instructor

  Elmhurst College

  1952 – 1959 · 7 yrs

• U.S. Army

  1945 – 1947 · 2 yrs

Education