Hon. Sheri Bluebond

Hon. Sheri Bluebond is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California in LosAngeles, appointed Feb. 1, 2001. She served as Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the district from Jan.1, 2015, through Dec. 31, 2018. Previously, Judge Bluebond was a partner with Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles from 1995-2001, where she co-chaired its Creditors? Rights and InsolvencyGroup, and specialized in bankruptcy, debtor/creditor relations and business litigation, representing debtors in possession and trustees as well as secured and unsecured creditors. From 1991-95, she was a shareholder with Murphy, Weir & Butler, and she was also an associate for Gendel, Raskoff, Shapiro & Quittner from 1983-91. Judge Bluebond is a Fellow of the American Bankruptcy College and a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the American Bar Association andABI. She currently serves on the Executive Committee and the Bankruptcy Committee of the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Board ofGovernors of the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum, and has at various times served on the Board ofTrustees of Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles/Camp Max Straus, the Board of Governors of the Financial Lawyers Conference, the Board of Directors of the Turnaround ManagementAssociation and the Board of Trustees for the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Judge Blue-bond received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1982and her J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law in 1985.