• District Court, E.D. Missouri

  Judge

  2014 – present · 12 yrsAppointed by Barack Hussein Obama 2

• Supreme Court of Missouri

  Judge

  1995 – 2007 · 12 yrs

Career

• Private practice

  2007 – 2014 · 7 yrs

• chief justice

  2003 – 2005 · 2 yrs

• rejected by Senate

  October 5

  1999 – present · 27 yrs

• Judge

  Supreme Court of Missouri

  1995 – 2007 · 12 yrs

• Judge

  Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District

  1994 – 1995 · 1 yr

• Judge

  1994 – 1994

• prac

  1994 – 1994

• legis

  1994 – 1994

• Professor

  1994 – 1994

• City counselor

  1993 – 1994 · 1 yr

• State representative

  Missouri

  1989 – 1993 · 4 yrs

• Special public defender and trial attorney, Office of the Special Public Defender

  1987 – 1989 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1987 – 1993 · 6 yrs

• Trial attorney, Office of the Public Defender

  1984 – 1987 · 3 yrs

• U.S. Army Reserve

  1971 – 1980 · 9 yrs

Education