• District Court, M.D. Alabama

  Judge

  1992 – 2011 · 19 yrsAppointed by George H.W. Bush

Career

• Special counsel

  1991 – present · 35 yrs

• Special counsel

  1987 – 1988 · 1 yr

• Chief judge

  Wake Island Court of Appeals

  1985 – 1992 · 7 yrs

• Special counsel

  1983 – 1986 · 3 yrs

• U.S. Air Force Reserve major general and judge advocate

  1982 – 1986 · 4 yrs

• Special counsel

  1980 – 1982 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1977 – 1992 · 15 yrs

• U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Alabama

  1969 – 1977 · 8 yrs

• Assistant city attorney

  1965 – 1969 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  1961 – 1969 · 8 yrs

• Assistant attorney general

  State of Alabama

  1959 – present · 67 yrs

• Assistant U.S. attorney

  Middle District of Alabama

  1959 – 1961 · 2 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Pelham J. Merrill, Supreme Court of Alabama

  1958 – 1959 · 1 yr

• U.S. Army Reserve lieutenant colonel

  1953 – 1974 · 21 yrs