• District Court, S.D. New York

  Judge

  2000 – present · 26 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

Career

• Justice

  Supreme Court of the State of New York

  1995 – 2000 · 5 yrs

• Judge

  Criminal Court of the City of New York

  1993 – 1995 · 2 yrs

• Counsel

  Mayor David Dinkins, New York City

  1990 – 1993 · 3 yrs

• Judge

  Criminal Court of the City of New York

  1989 – 1990 · 1 yr

• Adjunct professor of law

  Brooklyn Law School

  1988 – 1991 · 3 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Eastern District of New York

  1983 – 1989 · 6 yrs

• Bar review course instructor

  University of California, Hastings College of the Law

  1981 – present · 45 yrs

• Private practice

  1981 – 1983 · 2 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Rose Bird, Supreme Court of California

  1980 – 1981 · 1 yr

• Trial attorney

  Legal Aid Society of New York

  1978 – 1980 · 2 yrs

Education