• District Court, W.D. Arkansas

  Judge

  1990 – 1990Appointed by George H.W. Bush

• District Court, E.D. Arkansas

  Judge

  1990 – 2013 · 23 yrsAppointed by George H.W. Bush

Career

• professor

  1983 – 1990 · 7 yrs

• Visiting associate professor

  Louisiana State University Law Center

  1982 – 1983 · 1 yr

• Visiting associate professor

  Ohio State University College of Law

  1981 – present · 45 yrs

• associate professor

  1980 – 1983 · 3 yrs

• Visiting assistant professor

  University of Arkansas at Fayetteville School of Law

  1980 – present · 46 yrs

• Research assistant

  Arkansas constitutional convention

  1979 – present · 47 yrs

• Faculty

  University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law

  1976 – 1990 · 14 yrs

• assistant professor and assistant dean

  1976 – 1978 · 2 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. J. Smith Henley, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

  1975 – 1976 · 1 yr

Education