• District Court, D. Massachusetts

  Judge

  1993 – present · 33 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

Career

• Chair

  U.S. Sentencing Commission

  2010 – present · 16 yrs

• Associate justice

  Massachusetts Superior Court

  1989 – 1993 · 4 yrs

• U.S. Magistrate

  U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts

  1986 – 1989 · 3 yrs

• chief

  Civil Division

  1984 – 1986 · 2 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  District of Massachusetts

  1982 – 1986 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  1981 – 1982 · 1 yr

• Staff counsel

  U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

  1979 – 1981 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1977 – 1979 · 2 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Robert Braucher, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts

  1976 – 1977 · 1 yr

Education