• District Court, W.D. Oklahoma

  Judge

  1994 – present · 32 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

Career

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

  1993 – 1994 · 1 yr

• State senator

  Oklahoma

  1987 – 1993 · 6 yrs

• Private practice

  1986 – 1993 · 7 yrs

• Assistant district attorney

  1983 – 1986 · 3 yrs

• Trial attorney

  Office of Enforcement Operations, U.S. Department of Justice

  1982 – 1983 · 1 yr

• Lecturer

  Women's Studies Program, University of Maryland

  1981 – present · 45 yrs

• Special assistant, African Development Group

  Washington, D.C.

  1980 – 1981 · 1 yr

• Graduate fellow

  Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

  1979 – 1980 · 1 yr

• Law clerk, Hon. Woodrow Seals

  U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas

  1977 – 1979 · 2 yrs

Education