Hon. Martin R. Barash

Hon. Martin R. Barash is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California in Woodland Hills and Santa Barbara, sworn in on March 26, 2015. He brings more than 20 years of legal experience to the bench. Prior to his appointment, Judge Barash had been a partner at Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP in Los Angeles since 2001, where he represented debtors and other parties in chapter 11 cases and bankruptcy litigation. He first joined the firm as an associate in 1999. Earlier in his career, Judge Barash worked as an associate of Stutman, Treister & Glatt P.C. in Los Angeles. He also has served as an adjunct professor of law at California State University, Northridge. Following law school, Judge Barash clerked for Hon. Procter R. Hug, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1992-93. He is a former ABI Board member, for which he served on its Education Committee and currently serves on its Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and he is a judicial advisor to ABI?s annual Southwest Bankruptcy Conference and its Consumer Practice Extravaganza. Judge Barash is a former member of the Board of Governors of the Financial Lawyers Conference and currently serves a judicial director of the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum, where he is a member of its Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. He also is a volunteer for the Los Angeles chapter of Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) and was recognized nationally as the CARE Volunteer of the Year for 2022. Judge Barash has served on numerous committees of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California and currently serves as chair of its Education Committee, which is responsible for conducting educational programs for judges, law clerks and externs. He is a frequent panelist and lecturer on bankruptcy law and a coauthor of the national edition of the Rutter Group Practice Guide: Bankruptcy. Judge Barash received his A.B. magna cum laude in 1989 from Princeton University and his J.D. in 1992 from the UCLA School of Law, where he served as member, editor, business manager and symposium editor of the UCLA Law Review.

Martin R. Barash