• District Court, District of Columbia

  Judge

  1979 – 1994 · 15 yrsAppointed by Jimmy Carter

Career

• Visiting professor

  University of Chicago

  1996 – present · 30 yrs

• White House counsel

  1994 – 1995 · 1 yr

• U.S. representative from Illinois

  1975 – 1979 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  1973 – 1974 · 1 yr

• Professor

  Northwestern University School of Law

  1973 – 1975 · 2 yrs

• U.S. representative from Illinois

  1969 – 1973 · 4 yrs

• State representative

  Illinois

  1956 – 1966 · 10 yrs

• Private practice

  1952 – 1968 · 16 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Sherman Minton, Supreme Court of the United States

  1951 – 1952 · 1 yr

• U.S. Army

  Air Corps

  1944 – 1945 · 1 yr