Hon. Gregory R. Schaaf

Hon. Gregory R. Schaaf is Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky in Lexington, initially appointed on Oct. 1, 2012, and named Chief Judge on Oct. 1, 2019. Prior to his appointment, he practiced in the areas of commercial reorganizations, including bankruptcies and workouts, and commercial transactions, including energy-related matters. He represented debtors, creditors? commit- tees, trustees and individual creditors. Judge Schaaf is a CPA and worked as a solicitor in London from 1997-99, handling corporate matters and real estate transactions for English, Russian and American clients. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and is Board Certified in Business and Consumer Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification. Judge Schaaf received his B.B. in accounting and his B.S. in law enforcement administration from Western Illinois University in 1984 with high honors, and his J.D. in 1991 from the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and participated in its national moot court team and on its moot court board, as well as on the school?s Journal of Mineral Law and Policy.