• District Court, W.D. New York

  Judge

  1990 – 2015 · 25 yrsAppointed by George H.W. Bush

Career

• Private practice

  1988 – 1990 · 2 yrs

• First deputy district attorney

  1983 – 1988 · 5 yrs

• Private practice

  1981 – 1983 · 2 yrs

• Staff attorney

  Office of Special Prosecutor, U.S. Department of Justice

  1980 – present · 46 yrs

• Special counsel, Attorney General's Advocacy Institute

  Washington, D.C.

  1979 – present · 47 yrs

• first assistant U.S. attorney

  1975 – 1981 · 6 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Western District of New York

  1973 – 1981 · 8 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Northern District of Illinois

  1971 – 1973 · 2 yrs

Education