• Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

  Judge

  1986 – 2008 · 22 yrsAppointed by Ronald Reagan

• District Court, D. South Carolina

  Judge

  1981 – 1986 · 5 yrsAppointed by Ronald Reagan

Career

• Chair

  U.S. Sentencing Commission

  1985 – 1994 · 9 yrs

• South Carolina National Guard colonel

  1983 – 1994 · 11 yrs

• Solicitor

  1974 – 1981 · 7 yrs

• Private practice

  1971 – 1978 · 7 yrs

• Legal assistant

  1970 – 1971 · 1 yr

• U.S. Army Reserve lieutenant colonel

  1969 – 1983 · 14 yrs

• Law clerk, Hon. Clement F. Haynsworth

  Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

  1969 – 1970 · 1 yr

• U.S. Army captain

  1967 – 1969 · 2 yrs

Education