Hon. Mildred Cabán Flores

Hon. Mildred Cabán is Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Puerto Rico in San Juan, initially sworn in on March 19, 2010, and appointed Chief Judge in 2018. She serves on the U.S. Supreme Court Conference on Judicial Security, the First Circuit Judicial Council as the Bankruptcy Observer and the First Circuit Judicial Council Judicial Security, and the District Examination Committee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. Judge Cabán is a member of ABI and the American Bar Association, Commercial Law League of America, Hispanic National Bar Association, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ), Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity and the Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Bar Association. For NCBJ, she is on the Public Outreach Committee and on the Security Committee, and she previously chaired various NCBJ committees such as the Public Outreach Committee, Diversity, Security, and the Liaison of the Hispanic National Bar Association. She also served as the First Circuit Governor. Judge Cabán was a board member of Federal Judicial Center and a member of Federal Judicial Center Education Committee. She clerked for Hon. Héctor M. Laffitte of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, after which she practiced bankruptcy law at Brown Newsom & Córdova and then as a partner at Goldman Antonetti & Córdova, P.S.C., where she focused on representing creditors in commercial and consumer bankruptcy cases. Judge Cabán has been a speaker for various organizations on bankruptcy and consumer law topics. She also is an advisory board member of CARE (Credit Abuse Resistance Education) and speaks on financial literacy matters to students of all age groups. She received ABI’s 2014 CARE Volunteer of the Year Award. Judge Cabán received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1983 and her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1986.

Hon. Mildred Caban