• Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

  Judge

  1933 – 1977 · 44 yrsAppointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt

• District Court, D. Nebraska

  Judge

  1916 – 1933 · 17 yrsAppointed by Woodrow Wilson

Career

• Private practice

  1898 – 1916 · 18 yrs

• County attorney

  1897 – present · 129 yrs

• Judge

  Ward County Texas Court

  1894 – 1896 · 2 yrs