No political experience information on file.

Member, Northern District of New York Federal Court Bar Association, Criminal Practice Committee, 2010-present

Member, Federal Bar Council

Chief Judge, United States District Court, Northern District of New York, 2022-present

Judge, United States District Court, Northern District of New York, 2014-2022

Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York, 1995-2014

Chief of Appellate Division, United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York, 2005-2014

Syracuse Office Manager, United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York, 2010-2014

Nominated by President Barack Obama, Judge, United States District Court, Northern District of New York, May 8, 2014

Confirmed by the United States Senate, Judge, United States District Court, Northern District of New York, November 20, 2014

Adjunct Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, 2006-2007

Deputy Chief, Organized Crime and Terrorism Section, United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, 2004-2005

Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council Coordinator, United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, 2004-2005

Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, 2003-2005

Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, 1988-1995

Deputy Chief/High Intensity Drug Trafficking Coordinator, Narcotics Section, United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, 1994

Litigation Associate, Wyman, Bautzer, Christensen, Kuchel & Silbert, 1984-1988

Law Clerk, Honorable Jerome Farris United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1983-1984

Summer Associate, Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman, Kuchel & Silbert, 1983

Summer Associate, Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, 1982

Law Clerk for Hanson Van Metre, January 1981

Summer Associate, Boardman, Suhr, Curry and Field (now Boardman and Clark), Summer 1981

Waitress, Marty's Downtown, 1980

Member, Baltimore Woods Nature Center, 2000-present

Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association

Member, Women Lawyer's Association of Los Angeles

Member, Skaneateles Hockey Booster, 2013-2014

Board Member, Teddy Bear Child Care Center, Incorporated, 2005-2008, 1999-2000

Awards:

Professional:

Commendations in recognition of outstanding performance, dedicated service and/or
successful prosecutions from the following agencies:
Federal Bureau of Investigation (2005)
Los Angeles Police Department (2005)
United States Postal Inspection Service (2001)
International Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association (2000)
United States Customs Service (1999)
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (1999, 1992)
Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division (1995)
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma (1994)
Los Angeles Joint Drug Intelligence Group ( 1994)
Orange County Regional Narcotics Suppression Program (1994)
Southern California Drug Task Force (1994)
United States Customs Service ( 1994)
United States Department of Justice (1991)

Academic:

Order of the Coif, University of Wisconsin Law School (1983)

Articles Editor, Wisconsin Law Review (1982- 1983)

American Jurisprudence Book Awards at the University of Wisconsin Law School in
Contracts I (1980), Civil Procedure (1980), Contracts II (1981) and Professional
Responsibility (1982)

Distinction in the English Department at Carleton College, 1980