MARYLAND & THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND

U.S. Magistrate Judge, January 26, 1998 to December 22, 2010.

Deputy District Attorney, 14th Judicial District, Moffatt County, Colorado, 1984-85. Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Colorado, 1985-89. Assistant Federal Public Defender, District of Colorado, 1989-91. Federal Public Defender, District of Maryland, 1992-98. Member, Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction, U.S. Judicial Conference, 2007-.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, February 6, 1957. Harvard University, B.A. (economics), cum laude, 1979; Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude, 1982. Admitted to Colorado Bar, 1982. Law clerk to Judge Richard P. Matsch, U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, 1983-84. Project director, Vera Institute of Justice, London, 1991-92 (trustee, 2007-). Admitted to Maryland Bar, 1995. Member, American Bar Association; Maryland State Bar Association (criminal law & practice section). Board of Governors, Maryland Chapter, Federal Bar Association. Author, Justice Informed: The Pre-Sentence Pilot Trials in the Crown Court (1992); "Moving Up the Day of Reckoning: Strategies for Attacking the Cracked Trials Problem," Criminal Law Review (1992).
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