Admitted
1980, California; 1982, District of Columbia, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; 1983, U.S. District Court, Central District of California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circu
Law School
University of Chicago, J.D., 1980
Law School Graduation Year
1980
College
Oberlin College, B.A., 1977
Memberships
Rhode Island Bar Association (Member: Supreme Court Bench/Bar Committee; Ethics and Professionalism Committee); District of Columbia Bar; State Bar of California.
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa. Member, 1978 and Comments and Article Editor, 1979-1980, University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 47. Author: Comment, Access to Work Product of Disqualified Counsel, 46 U. Chi. L. Rev. 403, 1979. Law Clerk to Hon. Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1980-1981. Deputy Federal Public Defender, Central District of California, 1983-1986. Adjunct Professor, University of Rhode Island Department of Political Science, 1995-1998.