[4][2] After serving in the Air Force, he received a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1961.

He was in private practice in Las Vegas from 1961 to 1974, and was also a justice of the peace for Clark County, Nevada from 1962 to 1969.

[6] In 1996, George was selected to represent the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States, the national policy-making and management body of the federal judiciary.

[11][12] George served for a time as president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and the Clark County Association for Retarded Children, which became Opportunity Village.

[14] And, he served as chairman of the Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic Advisory Board at the Boyd School of Law.