• District Court, S.D. New York

  Judge

  1972 – 2012 · 40 yrsAppointed by Richard Nixon

Career

• Private practice

  New York City

  1969 – 1972 · 3 yrs

• Fellow

  Columbia University Urban Center

  1968 – 1969 · 1 yr

• Special assistant U.S. attorney

  Southern District of New York

  1962 – present · 64 yrs

• general counsel

  1956 – 1968 · 12 yrs

• Director

  veteran affairs, American Veterans Committee

  1948 – 1949 · 1 yr

• assistant special counsel

  1945 – 1956 · 11 yrs

• NAACP

  1944 – 1968 · 24 yrs

• legal assistant

  1944 – 1945 · 1 yr

• U.S. Army lieutenant

  Air Corps

  1941 – 1944 · 3 yrs