Hon. Shelley C. Chapman

Hon. Shelley C. Chapman is senior counsel in the Business Reorganization & Restructuring Depart- ment of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York and chair of its Alternative Dispute Resolution Prac- tice Group. Prior to joining Willkie in 2022, she had served as U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York since 2010. Judge Chapman oversaw the Lehman Brothers Holdings bankruptcy case ? the largest bankruptcy case in history ?? and many other chapter 11 mega-cases and chapter 15 cross-border proceedings, including Boston Generating, Innkeepers, Ambac, LightSquared, Sbarro, NII Holdings, Sabine Oil & Gas, Nine West, Century 21, Aeromexico and Philippine Airlines. She also has acted as a court-appointed mediator in numerous complex chapter 11 cases, including Windstream, Frontier Communications, OneWeb, Avianca S.A., Purdue Pharma, Madison Square Boys & Girls Club and Sears. She is currently serving as the lead mediator in the PROMESA/Title III case of The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA)/The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and as the court-appointed mediator in the Endo International chapter 11 cases. Judge Chapman has mentored newly appointed bankruptcy judges and has hosted hundreds of school-age children in her courtroom for mock trials. Be- fore beginning her service on the bench, she was a partner at Willkie from 2001-10, where her practice included the representation of debtors, creditors and other parties in interest in major chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings. Judge Chapman is a Conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference, a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the board of directors of the Inter- national Insolvency Institute. From 2015-20, at the request of Chief Justice John Roberts, she served as the chair of the Federal Judicial Center?s Bankruptcy Judge Education Advisory Committee, and she continues to act as a mentor judge for the Federal Judicial Center?s Orientation Program for Newly Ap- pointed Bankruptcy Judges. She also is a member of the FDIC?s Systemic Resolution Advisory Com- mittee. Judge Chapman is a frequent lecturer on U.S. bankruptcy and international insolvency topics. From 2001-07, she served on the board of directors of Her Justice (formerly inMotion), a nonprofit organization that provides pro bono legal services to indigent women and children in New York City, primarily in the areas of matrimonial, family and immigration law. Prior to her judicial appointment, she also served on the Executive Committee of the UJAFederation of New York?s Bankruptcy and Re- organization Group and on the advisory board of ABI?s New York City Bankruptcy Conference. Judge Chapman received her B.A. with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University in 1978, and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1981, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.

Hon. Shelley C. Chapman