• Supreme Court of the United States

  Judge

  1910 – 1941 · 31 yrsAppointed by William Howard Taft

• Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

  Judge

  1903 – 1910 · 7 yrsAppointed by Theodore Roosevelt

Career

• Professor

  Columbian University School of Law

  1897 – 1903 · 6 yrs

• Assistant attorney general

  U.S. Department of the Interior

  1896 – 1903 · 7 yrs

• Chief justice

  Wyoming Supreme Court

  1890 – present · 136 yrs

• Private practice

  1890 – 1897 · 7 yrs

• Chief justice

  Supreme Court of Wyoming Territory

  1889 – 1890 · 1 yr

• Territorial representative

  Wyoming Territory

  1888 – present · 138 yrs

• City attorney

  Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory

  1887 – 1888 · 1 yr

• Member

  commission to revise the statutes of Wyoming Territory

  1886 – present · 140 yrs

• Private practice

  Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory

  1884 – 1887 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  1881 – 1884 · 3 yrs