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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