• District Court, W.D. Michigan

  Judge

  1974 – 2013 · 39 yrsAppointed by Richard Nixon

Career

• Judge

  Michigan Circuit Court, Twentieth Judicial Circuit

  1970 – 1974 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  1961 – 1970 · 9 yrs

• U.S. attorney for the Western District of Michigan

  1953 – 1960 · 7 yrs

• Instructor

  Hope College

  1948 – 1953 · 5 yrs

• Private practice

  1948 – 1953 · 5 yrs

• Prosecutor

  1948 – 1953 · 5 yrs

• U.S. Army

  Air Corps

  1942 – 1947 · 5 yrs

Education