• Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

  Judge

  2000 – 2004 · 4 yrs

• Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

  trial-jud

  1987 – 2000 · 13 yrs

• Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara

  Judge

  1975 – 1988 · 13 yrsAppointed by Ronald Reagan

• Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara

  trial-jud

  1972 – 1975 · 3 yrsAppointed by Ronald Reagan

• District Court, District of Columbia

  Judge

  1962 – 1988 · 26 yrsAppointed by John F. Kennedy

• District Court, E.D. Louisiana

  Judge

  1950 – 1962 · 12 yrsAppointed by Harry S. Truman

Career

• Faculty

  Loyola University New Orleans School of Law

  1950 – 1962 · 12 yrs

• U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana

  1948 – present · 78 yrs

• Private practice

  Washington, D.C.

  1946 – 1948 · 2 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Eastern District of Louisiana

  1945 – 1946 · 1 yr

• U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant commander

  1942 – 1945 · 3 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

Education