district succeeded birth_place party nationality term_end preceded birth_date term_start article_title state name alma_mater
15th 11th dave weldon sam gibbons nashville , tennessee democratic american january 3 , 1995 january 3 , 1993 e. clay shaw , jr. . bill nelson 21 june 1949 january 3 , 1993 january 3 , 1991 jim bacchus
 florida florida jim bacchus vanderbilt university yale university florida state university
jim bacchus

james -lrb- jim -rrb- bacchus -lrb- born june 21 , 1949 -rrb- is a former member of the u.s. house of representatives and a former chairman of the appellate body of the world trade organization .
bacchus graduated from vanderbilt university in 1971 with a bachelor of arts degree `` magna cum laude '' with high honors in history .
at vanderbilt he was a founders scholar and member of phi beta kappa .
bacchus earned a master of arts degree from yale university in 1973 as a woodrow wilson fellow .
bacchus served in the united states army between 1971 and 1977 .
in 1978 , he received his j.d. with high honors from florida state university college of law .
bacchus was a member of the order of the coif and served as editor-in-chief of the `` fsu law review '' .
bacchus was a member of the staff of florida governor reubin askew from 1974 to 1978 , serving as speechwriter .
he became askew 's special assistant from 1979 to 1981 , after askew was appointed u.s. trade representative .
in 1990 , bacchus was elected as a member of the democratic party to represent florida 's 11th congressional district in the 102nd congress and florida 's 15th congressional district in the 103rd congress from january 3 , 1991 to january 3 , 1995 , and was not a candidate for reelection to the 104th congress in 1994 .
instead , from 1995 to 2003 he served on the appellate body of the wto , rising to the position of chairman in 2001 .
he was the first american to sit as part of the appellate body .
since 2004 , bacchus has served as chairman of the global trade & investment practice group at greenberg traurig , a miami-based international law firm .
he is also co-chair of its global practice group .
bacchus has regularly written trade related articles for publications including forbes and the wall street journal .
on february 23 , 2007 , bacchus was named to a department of defense panel reviewing the walter reed army medical center neglect scandal .
