She was a law clerk for Judge Richard Harvey Chambers of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1954 to 1955.
She was a trial attorney of the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., from 1960 to 1964, and an attorney advisor for the Office of Tax Legislative Counsel in the United States Department of the Treasury from 1964 to 1966.
[3] In 1972, Hall was appointed by President Richard Nixon to a seat on the United States Tax Court.
Hall was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 18, 1981, and received her commission the same day.
[3] On August 1, 1984, Reagan nominated Hall to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit created by 98 Stat.