• District Court, E.D. North Carolina

  Judge

  2005 – present · 21 yrsAppointed by George W. Bush

Career

• Senior lecturing fellow

  Duke University School of Law

  2008 – present · 18 yrs

• U.S. Magistrate Judge

  U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina

  2004 – 2005 · 1 yr

• Adjunct professor

  Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University

  1997 – present · 29 yrs

• U.S. Air Force Reserve

  1992 – 2000 · 8 yrs

• Private practice

  North Carolina

  1992 – 2004 · 12 yrs

• U.S. Air Force

  General Counsel Office

  1988 – 1992 · 4 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. J. Clifford Wallace, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  1987 – 1988 · 1 yr

Education