• District Court, E.D. Virginia

  Judge

  1819 – 1825 · 6 yrs

• District Court, D. Virginia

  Judge

  1813 – 1819 · 6 yrsAppointed by James Madison

Career

• Private practice

  1811 – 1813 · 2 yrs

• Judge

  Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia

  1803 – 1811 · 8 yrs

• Professor of law

  College of William and Mary

  1800 – 1804 · 4 yrs

• Judge

  General Court of Virginia

  1788 – 1803 · 15 yrs

• Delegate

  Annapolis Convention

  1786 – present · 240 yrs

• Commonwealth attorney

  1783 – 1786 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  Virginia

  1781 – 1788 · 7 yrs

• Continental Army lieutenant colonel

  1776 – 1781 · 5 yrs

• Private practice

  1772 – 1776 · 4 yrs

Education