• District Court, N.D. Iowa

  Judge

  1994 – present · 32 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

Career

• U.S. Magistrate Judge

  U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa

  1991 – 1994 · 3 yrs

• Special prosecutor

  Committee of Professional Ethics and Conduct of the Iowa State Bar

  1987 – present · 39 yrs

• Instructor

  Drake University Trial Advocacy Institute

  1987 – 1989 · 2 yrs

• Lecturer in law/trial advocacy

  University of Iowa College of Law

  1984 – 1985 · 1 yr

• Supervising attorney

  Drake University Law School, Legal Ethics Clinic

  1981 – 1983 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1975 – 1991 · 16 yrs

• General counsel

  Iowa Civil Liberties Union

  1975 – 1989 · 14 yrs

Education