• District Court, D. New Mexico

  Judge

  1970 – 2002 · 32 yrsAppointed by Richard Nixon

Career

• Private practice

  1965 – 1970 · 5 yrs

• U.S. senator from New Mexico

  1962 – 1964 · 2 yrs

• Governor

  New Mexico

  1961 – 1962 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1959 – 1960 · 1 yr

• Governor

  New Mexico

  1957 – 1958 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1955 – 1956 · 1 yr

• Governor

  New Mexico

  1951 – 1954 · 3 yrs

• State representative

  New Mexico

  1947 – 1948 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1945 – 1950 · 5 yrs

• Special agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Little Rock, Arkansas, San Francisco, California

  1942 – 1945 · 3 yrs

• Private practice

  1939 – 1942 · 3 yrs