Hon. Michael G. Williamson

Hon. Michael G. Williamson is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Middle District of Florida inTampa, initially appointed as bankruptcy judge in March 2000 and as chief judge from 2015-19.He currently serves as co-author of West?s Bankruptcy Law Manual and as an adjunct professor atStetson University College of Law, where he teaches bankruptcy law. Judge Williamson began his bankruptcy practice serving as a chapter 7 panel trustee from 1977-79. For the next 20 years, he represented numerous chapter 11 corporate debtors, creditors? committees and trustees in bankruptcy cases pending throughout the state of Florida until his appointment to the bankruptcy bench in 2000. Judge Williamson is past chair of the Committee on Creditors? Rights, Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association, past chair of the Business Law Section of The Florida Bar and that section?s Bankruptcy/UCC Committee, and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.He received his undergraduate degree from Duke University in 1973 and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1976.

Hon. Michael G. Williamson