• Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

  Judge

  1994 – 2013 · 19 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

Career

• Deputy associate attorney general (acting associate attorney general)

  U.S. Department of Justice

  1994 – present · 32 yrs

• Deputy solicitor general

  U.S. Department of Justice

  1986 – 1994 · 8 yrs

• Special counsel, Organized Crime and Racketeering Section

  Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

  1982 – 1986 · 4 yrs

• Chief, Appellate Section

  Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

  1979 – 1982 · 3 yrs

• Assistant to the solicitor general

  U.S. Department of Justice

  1978 – 1979 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  Washington, D.C.

  1975 – 1978 · 3 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court of the United States

  1974 – 1975 · 1 yr

• Law clerk

  Hon. Henry J. Friendly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  1973 – 1974 · 1 yr

Education