• Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

  Judge

  1984 – present · 42 yrsAppointed by Ronald Reagan

Career

• Faculty

  University of Virginia School of Law

  1983 – present · 43 yrs

• professor

  1983 – present · 43 yrs

• Deputy assistant attorney general

  Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice

  1982 – 1983 · 1 yr

• Editorial page editor

  Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

  1978 – 1981 · 3 yrs

• Faculty

  University of Virginia School of Law

  1973 – 1978 · 5 yrs

• associate professor

  1973 – 1978 · 5 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Lewis F. Powell, Supreme Court of the United States

  1972 – 1973 · 1 yr

• Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia

  1970 – present · 56 yrs

• U.S. Army

  1968 – 1969 · 1 yr

Education