• Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

  Judge

  1981 – present · 45 yrsAppointed by Ronald Reagan

Career

• Faculty

  University of Chicago Law School

  1969 – present · 57 yrs

• Associate professor

  Stanford Law School

  1968 – 1969 · 1 yr

• General counsel

  President's Task Force on Communications

  1967 – 1968 · 1 yr

• Assistant to the solicitor general

  U.S. Department of Justice

  1965 – 1967 · 2 yrs

• Legal assistant to the commissioner

  Federal Trade Commission

  1963 – 1965 · 2 yrs

• Law clerk, Hon. William J. Brennan

  Jr., Supreme Court of the United States

  1962 – 1963 · 1 yr

Education