Mr. Eugene R. Wedoff

Hon. Eugene R. Wedoff served as a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago from 1987-2015 and as chief judge from 2002-07. A former ABI Chairman and President, he served on ABI?s Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy and devotes his present legal practice exclusively to pro bono representations in bankruptcy appeals. Judge Wedoff presided over the chapter 11 reorganization of United Air Lines, was a member of the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules from 2004-14 and served as its chair after 2010. His work on the Rules Committee involved both the implementation of the means test forms and creation of the national form for chapter 13 plans. Judge Wedoff was the president of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges from 2013-14 and also served as a member of the NCBJ?s Board of Governors as its secretary and as chair of its education committee. Judge Wedoff is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, as well as a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference. He is the author of the chapter onprofessional employment in Queenan, Hendel and Hillinger, Chapter 11 Theory and Practice (LRPPublications 1994) and was an associate editor of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. JudgeWedoff is a frequent lecturer and served as a member of the Federal Judicial Center?s Committee onBankruptcy Judge Education. In 2016, he received the Judge William L. Norton Jr. Judicial Excellence Award; in 2009, he received the Lawrence P. King Award from the Commercial Law League; and in 1995, he received the Excellence in Education Award from the NCBJ. Judge Wedoff graduated from the college and law school of the University of Chicago.

Hon. Eugene R. Wedoff