• District Court, N.D. Illinois

  Judge

  1988 – 2004 · 16 yrsAppointed by Ronald Reagan

Career

• Adjunct professor

  Northwestern University School of Law

  1991 – present · 35 yrs

• Special counsel to associate attorney general Stephen S. Trott

  U.S. Department of Justice

  1988 – present · 38 yrs

• Assistant general counsel

  U.S. Sentencing Commission

  1986 – present · 40 yrs

• Executive director

  U.S. Sentencing Commission

  1986 – 1987 · 1 yr

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Northern District of Illinois

  1982 – 1986 · 4 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Central District of California

  1977 – 1982 · 5 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Northern District of Illinois

  1976 – 1977 · 1 yr

• lecturer

  1973 – 1975 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1972 – 1975 · 3 yrs

• Faculty

  DePaul University

  1972 – 1975 · 3 yrs

• assistant professor

  1972 – 1973 · 1 yr

• Law clerk, Hon. Edwin Robson

  U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

  1968 – 1971 · 3 yrs