Hon. Gregg W. Zive

Gregg W. Zive was sworn in as a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Nevada in Reno on Jan. 23, 1995, and was reappointed in 2009. He served as Chief Judge from 1999-2008 and chaired the Ninth Circuit Conference of Chief Bankruptcy Judges from 2005-06. He retired in 2010 and has been recalled on a full-time basis since 2011. Previously, Judge Zive practiced as a general civil litigator, concentrating in the areas of commercial, contract, real property and employment-relations law. He is admitted to the Bars of California (1973) and Nevada (1976) and to the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Zive is a past president of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, a Fellow of the Ameri- can College of Bankruptcy (inducted in 2005) and Master Emeritus of the Bruce R. Thompson Chapter of the American Inns of Court. He is also a member of the Washoe County Bar Association (for which he served as president from 1992-93), the Nevada State-Federal Judicial Council and the State Bar of Ne- vada Advisory Commission on Law Related Education. He has also been a member of the Ninth Circuit Public Information and Community Outreach Committee and the Ninth Circuit Standing Committee on ADR. A former ABI Board member, he is an adjunct professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas Boyd School of Law, and has been a presenter at numerous seminars regarding various bankruptcy- related topics as well as civil procedure, evidence, real property, employment law and trial techniques. Judge Zive received his B.A. in journalism from the University of Nevada in 1967 and his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1973, where he was a member and editor of its law review.