Hon. Ann M. Nevins

Hon. Ann M. Nevins is Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Connecticut in New Haven, initially appointed in 2015 and named Chief Judge on Sept. 1, 2021. During her 10 years in private practice, her work involved bankruptcy debtors, creditors, lenders, investors including hedge funds and private-equity firms, banks, pension funds, unions, trade creditors, government creditors and regulatory agencies, insurance companies and bankruptcy trustees. She also represented clients in complex corporate and real estate transactions, including large commercial financings, acquisitions, dispositions, commercial leasing and business restructurings. From 1999 through her appointment to the bankruptcy court, Judge Nevins served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Connecticut. She principally represented the U.S. in civil bankruptcy cases, but also prosecuted bankruptcy-related crimes, including bankruptcy fraud, bank fraud and wire fraud. From 2005-07, Judge Nevins served as a Senior Litigation Counsel for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. In 2011, she was named the Assistant-in-Charge of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Bridgeport, Conn., office. Judge Nevins received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where she served as a case editor on the American Journal of Law and Medicine from 1987-89.