Hon. Cecelia G. Morris

Hon. Cecelia G. Morris is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York in Pough- keepsie, appointed on July 1, 2000. She served as Chief Judge from 2012-22. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Morris clerked for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York starting in December 1988. Prior to that, she clerked for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Georgia from February 1986 until she moved to New York. Before her career with the court, Judge Morris had a private law practice in Macon, Ga., from May 1981 until February 1986. She served as an Assistant District Attorney and as the administrator of the Civil Division Child Support Recov- ery Unit, Griffin Judicial Circuit in Griffin, Ga., from September 1979 until May 1981. She also had a private law practice in Griffin from October 1977 until January 1978 and clerked at Seay Sims & Park (now Bolton & Park) in Griffin in 1976. Judge Morris has participated as a trainer in many mediation/ arbitration programs sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the National Association of Security Dealer Regulation and Bankruptcy Court, Endispute Inc. and the Center for Public Resources, Inc. She has successfully mediated many disputes in some of the most prominent cases pending before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Morris is an active participant in many bar outreach programs and has been honored to be the keynote speaker at several events, including the Federal Judicial Center?s Clerk of Court and Chief Deputies Conference and Weil Gotshal and Manges? Women@Weil program. She has authored several articles on electronic filing, including a chapter on electronic case filing in Collier on Bankruptcy, and has published articles on loss-mitigation, mediation, the consumer credit counseling requirement in bankruptcy and cross-border insolvency cases under chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code. Judge Morris has testified before Congress and served on the Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Board to the Administra- tive Office of the U.S. Courts. She also has taught bankruptcy ethics at St. John?s University?s LL.M. in Bankruptcy program and is a member of the Barry Zaretsky Roundtable Steering Committee at Brook- lyn Law School, sits on the advisory board of the ABI Law Review, and is a member of the International Insolvency Institute, American College of Bankruptcy, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and the Global Restructuring Organization?s Scientific Committee, headquartered in Modena, Italy. Judge Morris received the Annual Conrad B. Duberstein Memorial Award for Excellence and Compassion in the Bankruptcy Judiciary and the New York Law Journal Impact Award for pioneering the use of e-filing in federal court. She received her B.S. from West Texas State University and her J.D. from the John Marshall Law School.