• District Court, D. Minnesota

  Judge

  1995 – present · 31 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

Career

• Adjunct professor

  University of Minnesota Law School

  1994 – present · 32 yrs

• Chairman

  Assassination Records Review Board

  1994 – 1995 · 1 yr

• chief deputy attorney general

  1986 – 1995 · 9 yrs

• solicitor general

  1985 – 1986 · 1 yr

• Office of the Attorney General

  State of Minnesota

  1984 – 1995 · 11 yrs

• assistant attorney general and manager of Public Affairs Litigation Division

  1984 – 1985 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1981 – 1984 · 3 yrs

• Law clerk, Hon. Earl Larson

  U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota

  1980 – 1981 · 1 yr

Education