Admitted
1977, Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 1979, District of Columbia and U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania; 1982, U.S. Supreme Court; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1993, U.S. Court of A
Law School
Temple University School of Law, J.D., 1977
Law School Graduation Year
1977
College
College of the Holy Cross, B.A., cum laude, 1973
Memberships
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Federal and American Bar Associations; American Corrections Association; American Probation and Parole Association; Association of Paroling Authorities, International; Pennsylvania Association on Probation, Parole and Corrections.
Biographical
Phi Alpha Delta. Member, Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honor Society. Recipient: Special Commendation Award of Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys; United States Attorney General's Special Achievement Award. Law Clerk to Honorable Louis C. Bechtle, U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1977-1978. Author, The Sentencing of Organizations Under the United States Sentencing Guidelines, 40 Federal Bar News Journal 180 (1993); Compliance Programs Under the United States Sentencing Guidelines, 120 Pittsburgh Legal Journal, 139 (July 25, 1994); Initiating Appeals from District Court Decisions, Chapter 5 Lawyers Cooperative Federal Practice Guide: Federal Appellate Procedure, Third Circuit, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company and West Information Publishing Group (1996). Assistant United States Attorney, 1979-1985 and Chief, Economic Crimes Section, 1983-1985, Western District of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. First Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Office of the Attorney General, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1996-1997. Chairman of the Board, Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1997-2003. Commissioner: Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, 1997-2003; Pennsylvania County Probation and Parole Officers Firearm Education and Training Commission, 1997-2003; Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision, 2002-2003. Member: State Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision; Governor's Executive Council, Pennsylvania Justice Network; Pennsylvania's Targeted Community Revitalization and Crime Prevention Advisory Committee.