Hon. Mildred Cabán Flores

Hon. Mildred Cabán Flores 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 sat at the Southwest- ern Divisional Office in Ponce, P.R., until Aug. 31, 2011, and is currently sitting in Old San Juan. Judge Cabán Flores serves on the Federal Judicial Center Board, the Federal Judicial Center Education Committee, the District Examination Committee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and the First Circuit Judicial Council Civics and Education Committee. She also is a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ) and currently serves as Circuit Governor and on the Security Committee, the Public Outreach Committee and the Liaison Commit- tee for the Hispanic National Bar Association. Judge Cabán Flores has been a speaker for various organizations on bankruptcy and consumer law topics. She 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. Previously, Judge Cabán Flores clerked for Hon. Héctor M. Laffitte of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and she practiced bankruptcy at Brown Newsom & Córdova and as a partner at Goldman Antonetti & Córdova, P.S.C., where she focused on representing creditors in both commercial and consumer bankruptcy cases. Judge Cabán Flores 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