• Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

  Judge

  2014 – present · 12 yrsAppointed by Barack Hussein Obama 2

• District Court, S.D. Texas

  Judge

  2012 – 2014 · 2 yrsAppointed by Barack Hussein Obama 2

Career

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Southern District of Texas

  2005 – 2012 · 7 yrs

• Private practice

  2002 – 2005 · 3 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. William H. Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States

  2001 – 2002 · 1 yr

• Bristow fellow

  Office of the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice

  2000 – 2001 · 1 yr

• Law clerk

  Hon. A. Raymond Randolph, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

  1999 – 2000 · 1 yr

Education