Admitted
1966, Minnesota; 1974, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
University of North Carolina, J.D., with honors, 1963
Law School Graduation Year
1963
College
University of North Carolina, B.S., 1959
Memberships
Hennepin County (Member, Criminal Law Section; Chairman, Criminal Law Committee, 1979-1980), Minnesota State (Member, Criminal Law Section) and American (Member, Section on Criminal Justice) Bar Associations; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Minnesota Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Board of Directors, 1992); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; American Board of Trial Advocates; Academy of Certified Trial Lawyers of Minnesota; American Board of Criminal Lawyers (Member, Executive Committee, 1987—).
Biographical
Member, Order of the Coif. Recipient, Justice Clark Award, University of North Carolina, 1963. Associate Editor, University of North Carolina, Law Review, 1962-1963. Best Individual Oralist, Phillip Jessup Competition, 1963. Author: Case Note, Gomillion v. Lightfoot, North Carolina Law Review, 1962; Survey of North Carolina Criminal Law, North Carolina Review, 1963. Teaching Fellow, Stanford University Law School, 1963-1964. Member, Eighth Circuit Practice Committee, 1980—. Listed in Best Lawyers in American, 1987-1999, 2001-2002. (Certified as a Criminal Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy). (Also Of Counsel to Winthrop & Weinstine)
Military
With USMCR, 1955-1961