Hon. C. Ray Mullins

Hon. C. Ray Mullins is a retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta.He was appointed as judge by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Feb. 29, 2000, was named chief judge in January 2012, and retired in February 2018. Prior to his judicial service, Judge Mullins served as an instructor in the Management Department of Bowling Green State University?s School of BusinessAdministration from 1977-82, then joined the Toledo, Ohio, firm of Cooper, Straub, Walinski & Cramer(now Cooper Walinski), focusing primarily on civil litigation. From 1984-86, Judge Mullins taught trial practice as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Toledo College of Law. In 1987, he joined Kilpatrick & Cody (now Kilpatrick Stockton LLP) in Atlanta and became a partner in 1993, practicing in the firm?s Financial Restructuring Group and specializing in chapter 11 matters. He also served as a member of the Trustee Panel for the Northern District of Georgia from 1995-2000. Judge Mullins is aFellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, a former member of ABI?s Board of Directors and a past president of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (2012-13). In 2009, Chief Justice Roberts appointed Judge Mullins as chair of the Federal Judicial Center?s Bankruptcy Judge Education Commit-tee. He received his B.S. in business administration in 1974, his M.B.A. in 1977 from Bowling GreenState University, and his J.D. magna cum laude in 1982 from the University of Toledo College of Law, where he was a member of its law review and the Order of the Coif.

Hon. C. Ray Mullins