Hon. Kimberley H. Tyson

Hon. Kimberley H. Tyson is Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Colorado in Denver, initially appointed to the bench in May 2017. Previously she was a director of Ireland StapletonPryor & Pascoe, PC, where her practice focused on bankruptcy and related litigation. She represented secured and unsecured creditors, creditors? committees, trustees and purchasers in bankruptcies, as well as clients in contested foreclosure proceedings and lender-liability cases. She also pursued hidden or improperly transferred assets. In March 2011, she was appointed to the panel of chapter 7 trustees by the U.S. Trustee. Ms. Tyson is a former chair of the Colorado Bar Association?s Bankruptcy subcommittee and is a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy issues, co-authors the bankruptcy chapter of the Annual Survey of Colorado Law, and has been named in Colorado Super Lawyers.She is an active member of ABI, having served on its Rocky Mountain Bankruptcy Conference advisory board since 2003. Ms. Tyson clerked for Hon. John K. Pearson of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Kansas and Hon. Jerry G. Elliot of the Kansas Court of Appeals. She earned herB.A. at Smith College and her J.D. at the University of Kansas School of Law.