Hon. William H. Brown

Hon. William H. Brown retired in 2006 as a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Tennessee and resides in Carbondale, Colo. During his career on the bench, he had been designated to sit in the Middle District of Tennessee, Southern District of Florida, Eastern District of Michigan and Western District of Kentucky. He also served a four-year term on the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Sixth\nCircuit from 1999-2002. Judge Brown has since focused his professional activities on legal consulting engagements by attorneys and financial professionals on issues involving bankruptcy and commercial law, expert testimony, mediation and other alternate dispute resolution, as well as teaching and speaking. He has testified as an expert witness in bankruptcy court proceedings, has acted as a mediator in bankruptcy-related disputes, and has conducted mock trials. In 2011, Judge Brown received the Excellence in Education award from the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, and in 2012, he received the Judicial Excellence Award from ABI and Thomson Reuters. He is a member of ABI, having served on its Board and Executive Committee, and is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy. He served\nas co-director of ABI?s Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy, which issued its Final Report in April\n2019. Judge Brown is the author or co-author of several texts, including Consumer Bankruptcy Law: Chapter 7 and 13, a monograph published by the Federal Judicial Center in 2014; Bankruptcy Exemption Manual; 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Legislation with Analysis 1st and 2d editions; and Bankruptcy and Domestic Relations Manual, The Law of Debtors and Creditors, as well as bankruptcy form books,\nall published by Thomson Reuters. He is also a principal contributing editor for Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice 3rd, published by Thomson Reuters. Judge Brown prepares a quarterly update of consumer cases for the Federal Judicial Center and is a speaker at the Federal Judicial Center?s annual seminars for bankruptcy judges. He also speaks regularly at seminars throughout the U.S. on consumer and other bankruptcy topics. Judge Brown received his J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif.