• Supreme Court of the United States

  Judge

  1807 – 1826 · 19 yrsAppointed by Thomas Jefferson

Career

• Chief justice

  Supreme Court of Kentucky

  1806 – 1807 · 1 yr

• Judge

  Kentucky Court of Appeals

  1801 – 1806 · 5 yrs

• Clerk

  Kentucky constitutional conventions

  1799 – present · 227 yrs

• Clerk

  Kentucky Court of Appeals

  1799 – 1801 · 2 yrs

• Clerk

  Lexington Kentucky Democratic Society

  1793 – 1794 · 1 yr

• Clerk

  Kentucky constitutional conventions

  1792 – present · 234 yrs

• Clerk

  Kentucky House of Representatives

  1792 – 1801 · 9 yrs

• Clerk

  U.S. District Court, District of Kentucky

  1789 – 1792 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  1788 – 1801 · 13 yrs

• Clerk

  conventions seeking statehood for Kentucky

  1784 – 1792 · 8 yrs

• Continental Army

  1781 – present · 245 yrs

• Continental Army

  1779 – present · 247 yrs