• District Court, S.D. California

  Judge

  1995 – present · 31 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

Career

• U.S. Magistrate

  U.S. District Court, Southern District of California

  1986 – 1995 · 9 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Southern District of California

  1985 – 1986 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1982 – 1985 · 3 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  District of New Jersey

  1976 – 1982 · 6 yrs

• Law clerk

  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

  1975 – 1976 · 1 yr

Education