The following pictures were taken when I was first sworn in as a lawyer, to the Michigan Bar, on December 10, 1990. I had just started clerking for Justice Cavanagh a few months before, and, all-around great guy that he is, he personally administered the attorney's oath to me in the main courtroom of the Michigan Supreme Court.  The next month he was chosen Chief Justice by his fellow Justices.  As is customary on the Court, he served two terms as Chief before resuming his status as Associate Justice in January 1995.

This is me and "the Chief," as we called him, right after the swearing-in: 

And there's my Mom on the left, posing with us: 

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