• District Court, District of Columbia

  Judge

  1990 – 2008 · 18 yrsAppointed by George H.W. Bush

Career

• Special assistant attorney general

  State of Utah

  1986 – 1990 · 4 yrs

• Special assistant attorney general

  State of New Mexico

  1985 – 1990 · 5 yrs

• Special assistant attorney general

  State of Montana

  1983 – 1990 · 7 yrs

• Special counsel

  U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

  1979 – 1980 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  Washington, D.C.

  1977 – 1990 · 13 yrs

• Deputy solicitor general

  U.S. Department of Justice

  1975 – 1977 · 2 yrs

• Adjunct professor of law

  Georgetown University Law Center

  1974 – 1978 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  Washington, D.C.

  1973 – 1975 · 2 yrs

• Assistant to the solicitor general

  U.S. Department of Justice

  1970 – 1973 · 3 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Henry J. Friendly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  1969 – 1970 · 1 yr

Education