Hon. Jeffery W. Cavender

Hon. Jeffery W. Cavender is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta, sworn in on March 2, 2018. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he was a partner in the financial restructuring practice of Troutman Sanders LLP, where he primarily represented corporate debtors and secured lenders in chapter 11 cases and mortgage servicers in consumer-related litigation and bankruptcy matters. Judge Cavender previously was a partner in the bankruptcy group of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (n/k/a Dentons LLP) and served as the general counsel for a national mortgage company. He chaired the Bankruptcy Section for the Atlanta Bar Association from 2017-18 and was a member of its board of directors from 2012-18. During Judge Cavender?s tenure as chair, the Atlanta Bar Bankruptcy Section was named the national CARE chapter of the year and received the Pro Bono Award for Excellence and the Small Section of the Year Award from the Atlanta Bar. He is an active member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, the Turnaround Management Association and ABI, having previously served on the advisory board for ABI?s Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop. Judge Cavender received his undergraduate degree in history summa cum laude in 1990 from Berry College, and his J.D. cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1993, where he was a member of the Georgia Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.