Hon. Maureen A. Tighe

Hon. Maureen A. Tighe is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California in Woodland Hills. She served as Chief Bankruptcy Judge from 2019-21. Judge Tighe sits on the court?s Executive and Outreach Committees and its Strategic Planning Council. Prior to her appointment to the bench in 2003, she was the U.S. Trustee for the Central District of California for five years. During that time,\nshe also served at various times as U.S. Trustee in the Northern, Eastern and Southern Districts ofCalifornia, Hawaii, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the District ofNevada. From 1988-98, Judge Tighe was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, specializing inthe prosecution of financial crime, including bankruptcy and consumer frauds. Prior to that, she was inprivate practice in New York and clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Harold Ackerman in Newark,N.J. Judge Tighe has authored numerous reports and articles concerning access to justice, bankruptcy crimes, bankruptcy petition-preparers, parallel proceedings, trustee duties and identity theft. She received her B.A. with highest honors from Douglass College in 1979 and her J.D. from Rutgers LawSchool-Newark in 1984 with high honors, where she was editor-in-chief of the Rutgers Law Review.