Hon. Arthur J. Gonzalez

Arthur J. Gonzalez is a former Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York in New York, having retired on March 1, 2012, and is currently a Senior Fellow at New York Uni- versity School of Law in New York, where he had served as an adjunct professor since 2008. Prior to his service on the bench, he was an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel of the IRS and earned the Chief Counsel's Special Achievement Award for three consecutive years. Thereafter, he practiced with the firms of Pollner, Mezan, Stolzberg, Berger & Glass PC and Gaston & Snow in New York City. Judge Gonzalez was appointed Assistant U.S. Trustee in the Southern District of New York in 1991 and U.S. Trustee for Region 2 (Second Circuit) in 1993, serving in that position until his appointment to the bench in 1995 to a 14-year term and reappointed in 2009. In 2010, he was appointed Chief Judge. During his tenure, he presided over numerous large chapter 11 cases, including the Enron, WorldCom and Chrysler cases. Judge Gonzalez earned his B.S. in accounting from Fordham University, his M.S. in education from Brooklyn College and his J.D. from Fordham Law School. He received his LL.M. in taxation from New York University Law School in 1990.