• Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

  Judge

  1993 – 2009 · 16 yrsAppointed by William Jefferson Clinton

• Tennessee Supreme Court

  Judge

  1990 – 1993 · 3 yrs

Career

• Judge

  1994 – 1994

• Associate justice

  Tennessee Supreme Court

  1990 – 1993 · 3 yrs

• Judge

  1989 – 1989

• prac

  1989 – 1989

• Professor

  1989 – 1989

• Faculty

  Vanderbilt University Law School

  1988 – 1990 · 2 yrs

• adjunct professor of law

  1988 – 1990 · 2 yrs

• lecturer in law

  1975 – 1982 · 7 yrs

• Associate judge

  Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, Middle Division

  1975 – 1990 · 15 yrs

• Faculty

  Vanderbilt University Law School

  1972 – 1982 · 10 yrs

• assistant professor of law

  1972 – 1975 · 3 yrs

• Assistant district attorney

  1969 – 1972 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  1968 – present · 58 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Middle District of Tennessee

  1968 – 1969 · 1 yr

Education