Career
Private practice
1978 – 1979 · 1 yr
acting chairman
1977 – present · 49 yrs
Member
Civil Aeronautics Board
1973 – 1978 · 5 yrs
Judge
Oklahoma District Court, Twenty-Second Judicial District
1965 – 1973 · 8 yrs
Special justice
Supreme Court of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
1965 – 1973 · 8 yrs
Private practice
1963 – 1965 · 2 yrs
Ford Foundation fellow in law teaching
Harvard Law School
1962 – 1963 · 1 yr
Faculty
University of Oklahoma College of Law
1961 – 1962 · 1 yr
Private practice
1956 – 1961 · 5 yrs
U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant
1952 – 1956 · 4 yrs
active duty
1952 – 1954 · 2 yrs
Education
B.A., University of Oklahoma-Norman CampusB.A., University of Oklahoma-Norman CampusLL.M., Harvard University