Admitted: 1974, Pennsylvania; 1975, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1976, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio and U.S. Court of International Trade; 1977, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; 1978, Florida and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida; 1981, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Law School: University of Tennessee at Knoxville, LL.B.
Member: Miami-Dade County and American (Member, Committee on Practice and Procedure, NLRA Labor Relations Law Section, 1978-2000) Bar Associations; The Florida Bar (Member, Labor Relations Committee, 1979-1990); The Maritime Law Association of the United States.
Biography: Phi Alpha Delta; Order of the Coif. Editor, Tennessee Law Review, 1973-1974. Author: "Workmen's CompensationTraveling EmployeesDuration and Intoxication as Deviation Factors," 39 Tenn. L. Rev. 755, 1972; "Civil ProcedurePower of Trial Court to Award Additur," 40 Tenn. L. Rev. 753, 1973; "Conservation of Oil and Gas in Tennessee," 41 Tenn. L. Rev. 323, 1974; "The Federal Rules of Evidence: How Will the Trial of Corporate and Commercial Cases be Affected?" 31 Business Lawyer 377, 1975 (Reprinted by Hastings College of the Law, University of California, July 1976); "Federal Black Lung: Ten Years of Legislation and Litigation," Forum 525 Vol. XVI, 1981; "The Mass Action Theory of Union Liability-Is It Still Valid After Carbon Fuel?" Florida Bar Journal 241, April 1984.
Born: Marion, Ohio, October 7, 1948