• District Court, District of Columbia

  Judge

  1994 – present · 32 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

Career

• chief judge

  1988 – 1994 · 6 yrs

• Judge

  District of Columbia Court of Appeals

  1983 – 1994 · 11 yrs

• Assistant city administrator for intergovernmental relations

  District of Columbia

  1979 – present · 47 yrs

• Corporation counsel

  District of Columbia

  1979 – 1983 · 4 yrs

• Special assistant for legislation

  1974 – 1979 · 5 yrs

• Legislative program coordinator, Office of the Assistant to the Mayor-Commissioner

  1972 – 1974 · 2 yrs

• General counsel

  Congressional Commission on the Organization of the District of Columbia Government

  1971 – 1972 · 1 yr

• Trial attorney

  Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

  1969 – 1971 · 2 yrs

• Staff attorney

  San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation

  1968 – 1969 · 1 yr

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  District of Columbia

  1965 – 1968 · 3 yrs

• Law clerk

  Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia

  1964 – 1965 · 1 yr

Education