The Federal Judicial Center directory is the career spine. Born 1961, New York, N.Y. Harvard College, B.A., 1983. Harvard Law School, J.D., 1987. Reporter, Wall Street Journal, New York, 1983–1984. Law clerk to Judge Patricia M. Wald, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1987–1988. Law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, 1988–1989.
Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1989–1994 and 1996–1999; deputy chief appellate attorney, 1994; chief, Major Crimes Unit, 1996–1999. Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, 1994–1996. Private practice, New York City, 2000–2011.
The SDNY summer-intern hiring sheet dated December 18, 2025, identifies the private-practice firm as Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and confirms chambers at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square. Those are titles and employers as the court and FJC published them. They are not a finding about later orders.