Last updated on: 8/27/2007 | Author: ProCon.org

Bruce A. Taylor, JD Biography

Title:
Immigration Judge
Position:
Con to the question "Should Prostitution Be Legal?"
Reasoning:

“I have continued to prosecute and assist in the prosecution of obscenity, child exploitation, prostitution, and related vice crimes as both a special prosecutor for counties and cities across the Country and as a federal prosecutor for DOJ’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section from 1989 through 1994. I have now been in about 100 jury trials for such offenses in almost half of the States.”

Testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Oct. 15, 2003
Involvement and Affiliations:
  • Immigration Judge, Florence Immigration Court, Department of Justice (DOJ), 2006-present
  • Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General,Criminal Division, DOJ, 2004-2006
  • President and Chief Counsel, National Law Center for Children and Families, Inc., 1995-2004
  • Senior Trial Attorney, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Criminal Division, DOJ, 1989-1994
  • Assistant Attorney General, Arizona, 1989
  • Vice President and General Counsel, Citizens for Decency through Law, Inc., 1979-1989
  • Associate, Bertsch, Fludine, Millican & O’Malley, 1978-1979
  • Assistant Director of Law, City of Cleveland, 1977-1978
  • Assistant Prosecutor, City of Cleveland, 1975-1977
  • Member, Bar Association in Ohio, Arizona, New York, and Virginia
Education:
  • JD, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 1974
  • BA, University of Vermont, 1972
Other:
  • None found
Quoted in:
  1. Is Pornography Prostitution?