Judge. b. Hutchinson, Kansas. B.A., B.S., University of Kansas, 1989; visiting student at Mansfield College, Oxford University, 1987-88; J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1993; M.A., University of Chicago, 1994. Clerk to Judge Jerry E. Smith, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1993-94. Associate, Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, Illinois, 1994-96. Associate, Mayer Brown & Platt, Chicago, Illinois 1996-2001. Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Review and Appellate Matters, Tax Division, United States Department of Justice, from September 2001 to August 2008 (except for term as Acting Assistant Attorney General, from July 2007 to January 2008). Nominated by President George W. Bush as Judge, United States Tax Court, on November 15, 2007; confirmed by Senate, July 7, 2008.