Education
Princeton University. Yale Law School.
Princeton University. Yale Law School.
He has served on the court from 1994 to the present. Judge Thompson was nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton on September 14, 1994, to a seat vacated by Ellen Bree Burns, confirmed by the United States Senate on October 7, 1994, and received his commission on October 11, 1994. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1975 and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1978.