• Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  Judge

  1979 – present · 47 yrsAppointed by Jimmy Carter

• District Court, C.D. California

  Judge

  1967 – 1979 · 12 yrsAppointed by Lyndon B. Johnson

Career

• Judge

  Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

  1966 – 1967 · 1 yr

• Judge

  Los Angeles California Municipal Court

  1965 – 1966 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1953 – 1965 · 12 yrs

• Private practice

  1951 – 1953 · 2 yrs

• U.S. Marine Corps first lieutenant

  1944 – 1946 · 2 yrs