• District Court, E.D. Michigan

  Judge

  1994 – present · 32 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

Career

• Adjunct lecturer

  University of Michigan Law School

  1981 – 1994 · 13 yrs

• Chief federal defender

  1979 – 1994 · 15 yrs

• Assistant prosecutor

  1974 – 1975 · 1 yr

• Professor

  Wayne State University Law School

  1968 – 1979 · 11 yrs

• Assistant dean

  Wayne State University Law School

  1968 – 1973 · 5 yrs

• Special counsel, Mayor's Development Team

  1967 – present · 59 yrs

• Special counsel, Mayor Jerome Cavanagh

  1967 – 1968 · 1 yr

• Vice-president/house counsel

  Borman Food Stores, Inc.

  1965 – 1967 · 2 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Eastern District of Michigan

  1964 – 1965 · 1 yr

• Staff attorney

  U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

  1962 – 1963 · 1 yr

Education