• Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  Judge

  1998 – present · 28 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

• District Court, N.D. New York

  Judge

  1994 – 1998 · 4 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

Career

• Justice

  Supreme Court of the State of New York, Fifth Judicial District

  1990 – 1994 · 4 yrs

• Vice-president of legal affairs

  Atlantic States Legal Foundation

  1989 – 1990 · 1 yr

• Staff director, Committee on Corporations

  Authorities & Commissions, New York State Assembly

  1987 – present · 39 yrs

• Visiting professor of law

  Syracuse University

  1987 – 1988 · 1 yr

• Commissioner

  New York State Public Service Commission

  1981 – 1986 · 5 yrs

• Chair and executive director

  New York State Consumer Protection Board

  1975 – 1980 · 5 yrs

• District representative

  Syracuse New York Common Council

  1974 – 1975 · 1 yr

• Assistant corporation counsel and director of consumer affairs unit

  1972 – 1973 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1966 – 1972 · 6 yrs

Education