Appointed to the Fourth Circuit by President Reagan in 1984 and served as the court's chief judge from 1996 to 2003. Previously a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. and a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.

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