He was in the United States Navy as a Lieutenant (JG) from 1955 to 1958.
He was an agricultural engineer at the Ralston Purina Company in St. Louis, Missouri from 1958 to 1964.
He was a part-time instructor at the University of Arkansas Law School in 1968.
[1] Waters was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on August 28, 1981, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas vacated by Judge Paul X. Williams.
His service was terminated on April 16, 2002, due to his death in Fayetteville, Arkansas.