• Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  Judge

  2002 – present · 24 yrsAppointed by George W. Bush

• District Court, E.D. New York

  Judge

  1987 – 2002 · 15 yrsAppointed by Ronald Reagan

Career

• Private practice

  New York City

  1986 – 1987 · 1 yr

• U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York (interim court appointment)

  1986 – present · 40 yrs

• chief

  Special Prosecutions Division

  1984 – 1986 · 2 yrs

• chief

  Narcotics Division

  1982 – 1984 · 2 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Eastern District of New York

  1979 – 1986 · 7 yrs

• Private practice

  New York City

  1977 – 1979 · 2 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Thomas E. Fairchild, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

  1976 – 1977 · 1 yr

Education