Hon. Elizabeth L. Perris

Hon. Elizabeth L. Perris is a retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Oregon in Portland, where she served for more than 30 years, from April 1984 through January 2015, and was a member of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit from 1988-93 and 1998-2005. She also was an adjunct professor at Lewis & Clark College of Law from 2005-06 and 2008-09, and at Willamette University School of Law in 1998. From 1976-1984, Judge Perris worked in Oregon as a bankruptcy court law clerk, served as a bankruptcy trustee and was an attorney in private practice specializing in bankruptcy. She was a member of the U.S. Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules from 2007-14. She also chaired the Bankruptcy Judges’ Education Committee and was a board member of the Federal Judicial Center, in the process helping educate new bankruptcy judges from throughout the country. Judge Perris is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and served on ABI’s Com-
mission on Consumer Bankruptcy. She received her A.B. From the University of California, Berkeley in 1972 and her J.D. from the University of California, Davis in 1975.