Admitted
1977, Pennsylvania; 1981, District of Columbia
Law School
Harvard University, J.D., magna cum laude, 1973
Law School Graduation Year
1973
College
Yale University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1968; London School of Economics, London, England, M.Sc., 19
Memberships
Philadelphia (Member, Committee on Federal Courts, 1986—; Co-Chair, Municipal Courts Committee, 1997-1998; Chair, Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention, 1998), Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations.
Biographical
Executive Editor, Harvard Law Review, 1972-1973. Law Clerk to Chief Judge David Bazelon, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1974-1975; Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court, 1975-1976. Assistant Professor, 1976-1980 and Lecturer, 1980-1995, Civil Procedure, Family Law, Juvenile Rights and Freedom of Speech, University of Pennsylvania Law School. Master of the Bench, University of Pennsylvania American Inn of Court. President, Juvenile Law Center, 2000-2002.