Senior U.S. Circuit Judge United States Court of Appeals Eleventh Circuit Born: Cottonwood, Alabama Date of Appointment: April 18, 1988 Entered on Duty: April 25, 1988 Senior Status December 18, 2000 Education: University of Alabama, B.A., 1957; University of Alabama Law School, LL.B., 1959 Previous Employment: U.S. District Judge, Southern District of Alabama, 1981-1988 Committee Appointments/Professional Organizations: Member, Alabama and Mobile Bar Associations; Member, Federal Bar Association; Member, Maritime Law Association of the United States; Admitted to Bar, U.S. Supreme Court, Court of Appeals for the Fifth, Eighth, and Eleventh Circuits; Defender Services Committee, Judicial Conference of the U.S., 1992-1998, Chair, 1995-1998; Chair, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Death Penalty Representation, Defender Services Committee, 1994-1995. Adjunct Professor, University of Alabama School of Law, Fall 1996. Committee on the Judicial Branch, Judicial Conference of the U.S., 2001-present.