Admitted
1976, Mississippi
Law School
University of Virginia, J.D., 1976
Law School Graduation Year
1976
College
Harvard University, B.A., cum laude, 1973
Memberships
The Mississippi Bar; American Academy of Appellate Lawyers; Defense Research Institute (Vice Chair, Appellate Advocacy Committee).
Biographical
Order of the Coif. Editor, Virginia Law Review, 1975-1976. Law Clerk to The Hon. Harry G. Walker, Justice, Mississippi Supreme Court, 1976-1977; to The Hon. William H. Rehnquist, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1977-1978. Director, 1984-1990, Chairman of the Board, 1988-1990, Legal Services Corporation. Special Counsel to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott for the Impeachment Trial of President William J. Clinton, 1999. Member: Administrative Conference of the United States, 1984-1994; National Practitioners' Advisory Council; The Federalist Society, 1995—.