Assumed office:
October 14, 1986
Appointed by:
Ronald Reagan
Hometown:
Chicago, IL
Attended:
Cornell University ('70), University of Chicago ('73)
Clerkship:
Justice Marshall (United States Supreme Court); Judge McGowan (D.C. Circuit)
Before the Bench:

Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the OMB; deputy assistant attorney general and assistant attorney general of the Antitrust Division at DOJ.

Trivia:
He dropped out of college to invest in and help run an early computer dating service called Operation Match.