Born: Boston Massachusetts,  May 17, 1941

Education:
Brookline Public Schools,
Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute 1958-9,
University of  Massachusetts, Amherst, 1960-3, BS Economics 1963
Boston University School of Law, 1963-6, JD 1966

Admitted to Practice:
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1966
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1967
U.S. Court of  Appeals, First Circuit, 1969
U.S. Supreme Court, 1971
New York (inactive), 1983
Rhode Island Supreme Court,1989
U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island, 1990
Mashantucket-Pequot Tribal Court (inactive), 1996