• Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

  Judge

  1998 – present · 28 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

• District Court, D. South Carolina

  Judge

  1992 – 1998 · 6 yrsAppointed by George H.W. Bush

Career

• Resident judge

  South Carolina Circuit Court, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit

  1985 – 1992 · 7 yrs

• solicitor

  1981 – 1985 · 4 yrs

• deputy solicitor

  1978 – 1981 · 3 yrs

• Office of the Solicitor, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit

  1975 – 1985 · 10 yrs

• assistant solicitor

  1975 – 1978 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  1973 – 1974 · 1 yr

• U.S. Army Reserve adjutant general

  1970 – 1978 · 8 yrs

Education