Hon. Mindy A. Mora

Hon. Mindy A. Mora is U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Florida in West Palm Beach, appointed on April 6, 2018. She practiced in the areas of bankruptcy, commercial finance, and securitized real estate finance and litigation from 1982-2018 prior to her appointment to the bench by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Mora is a Fellow of both the American College of Bankruptcy and the American College of Commercial Finance Attorneys. She previously chaired the Business Law Section of The Florida Bar, which represents the interests of more than 5,000 business lawyers within the State of Florida. Throughout much of her legal practice, she has been active in the development of Florida?s commercial laws, most recently as a member of The Florida Bar Business Law Section task force that prepared draft Florida legislation adopting a modified version of the Uniform Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act. Judge Mora is a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and has served on its Technology, New Member, Education and Executive Director Search Committees. She also participates as a member of the Business Law Sections of both the American Bar Association and The Florida Bar, the Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys, the Bankruptcy Bar Association of South Florida, and the International Women?s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation. Presently, Judge Mora is actively involved in the Business Law Section of The Florida Bar by serving as the judicial co-chair of both the Bankruptcy/UCC Committee and the Long-Range Planning Committee. From 2018-20, she served as the judicial chair of the Bankruptcy Court?s Local Rules Committee, which promulgated amendments to the local rules that were adopted by the bench of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida. Since 2021, Judge Mora has served as the judicial chair of the Bankruptcy Court?s Pro Bono Committee, which promotes pro bono service by lawyers appearing in the court and facilitates ongoing communication with various legal aid organizations throughout South Florida. She regularly lectures on commercial law and bankruptcy topics to lawyers and other judges throughout the U.S. Judge Mora received her B.B.A. from George Washington University in 1979 and her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1982.