Hon. Susan V. Kelley

Susan V. Kelley is Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwau- kee. Prior to her appointment, she was a partner in the Madison, Wis., office of Michael, Best & Fried- rich and also practiced with the Madison law firms of Lee, Kilkelly, Paulson & Younger and Murphy & Desmond, and the Baltimore firm of Weinberg and Green. She is certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification. Judge Kelley is active in the State Bar of Wisconsin, having chaired its Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Creditors' Rights Section for four years, and is a former member of the executive committee of the board of governors. She has also co-chaired the Gender Equity Com- mittee and is a member of the Convention and Entertainment Committee of the State Bar of Wisconsin. Judge Kelley has authored the debtor/creditor law chapter of the Annual Survey of Wisconsin Law for 10 years and is the editor-in-chief of the fifth edition of Ginsberg & Martin on Bankruptcy, published by Aspen Publishing. She is also an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School. Judge Kelley received her J.D. from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America and her B.A. from Marquette University.

Hon. Susan V. Kelley