Hon. David M. Warren
Hon. David M. Warren is Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina in Raleigh, initially appointed on Oct. 4, 2013, and appointed Chief Judge on July 28, 2021. He previously was a partner at Poyner Spruill LLP in Raleigh and Rocky Mount, N.C., for nearly 30 years and concentrated his practice in the areas of bankruptcy and commercial law. Following law school, Judge Warren began a two-year clerkship with the late Hon. Thomas M. Moore, who, with Hon. A. Thomas Small, drafted legislation that became chapter 12 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. He served on the panel of chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees for the Eastern District of North Carolina for 24 years and is a past chair of the Bankruptcy Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association. In addition, he served on the Local Rules Committee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina for more than 10 years and served as chair for more than seven years. Judge Warren is Board Certified in Business and Consumer Bankruptcy Law by the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization and the American Board of Certification. While in private practice, he was recognized as a Tier 1 attorney in the Bankruptcy/Restructuring area for North Carolina by Chambers USA from 2009-13, as a ?Legal Elite? in the area of Bankruptcy Law by Business North Carolina magazine in 2006, 2008, 2010-12 and 2014, and in Super Lawyers from 2009-14. He also was recognized in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization law in 2013 and 2014. Judge Warren is a former national president of Kappa Alpha Order, a national college fraternity headquartered in Lexington, Va. He also serves as a trustee of the Kappa Alpha Order Educational Foundation, chair of the Turner W. Battle Scholarship Trust and as a director of DiabetesSisters, a national nonprofit organization supporting women with diabetes. Judge Warren received his B.A. cum laude from Wake Forest University and his J.D. from the Wake Forest University School of Law.
David M. Warren