• District Court, E.D. Missouri

  Judge

  1980 – 2004 · 24 yrsAppointed by Jimmy Carter

Career

• Judge

  Circuit Court of Missouri, Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit

  1975 – 1980 · 5 yrs

• Executive director/general counsel

  1972 – 1975 · 3 yrs

• General manager, Human Development Corporation

  1968 – 1972 · 4 yrs

• Regional attorney, U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity

  1966 – 1968 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1961 – 1965 · 4 yrs

• Special assistant circuit attorney

  1961 – 1964 · 3 yrs

• Chief legal advisor

  Missouri NAACP

  1958 – 1965 · 7 yrs

• Assistant circuit attorney

  1954 – 1961 · 7 yrs

• Private practice

  1951 – 1954 · 3 yrs

• U.S. Air Force

  1942 – 1946 · 4 yrs