Hon. Madeleine C. Wanslee

Hon. Madeleine C. Wanslee is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Arizona in Phoenix, sworn in on March 17, 2014. Previously, she was an associate and then partner at Gust Rosenfeld, PLC, where she was active in the firm?s management committee and co-chaired the firm?s Bank- ruptcy Practice Group. Her practice focused on bankruptcy and creditors? rights, and she represented small businesses, financial institutions, corporations and state agencies. While in private practice, Judge Wanslee was a certified bankruptcy specialist. She also argued a number of appeals, including United Student Aid Funds Inc. v. Espinosa before the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Wanslee serves on the Ninth Circuit Conference Executive Committee (currently as Conference Chair) and on various committees of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. She is a frequent presenter and helps to train new judges through the Federal Judicial Center. Judge Wanslee is a former chair of the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Judges Education Committee, the Ninth Circuit Lawyer Repre- sentatives Coordinating Committee and the Arizona State Bar?s Bankruptcy Section. She helped to charter and is past president of the Arizona Bankruptcy American Inn of Court. Judge Wanslee began her legal career as a law clerk for Hon. Robert Clive Jones of the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. She received her B.F.A. and B.A. from the University of Arizona and her J.D. from Gonzaga University School of Law, where she served as a writer and executive editor of the Gonzaga Law Review. Following law school, she clerked for Chief Bankruptcy Judge Robert C. Jones of the District of Nevada.