He resigned from the court in 1986, taking a job as senior counsel for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. For several years during the 1990s, while serving with the Sewerage District, he was also appointed a special master to oversee the implementation of the consent decree on overcrowding in Milwaukee County jail. Where he was entrusted to keep the jail population below a critical level, meaning if new people had to be jailed, he would have to determine which others should be released.
