Hon. Helen Elizabeth Burris

Hon. Helen Elizabeth Burris is the Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the District of South Carolina in Spartanburg. After clerking for Hon. Marvin R. Wooten in Charlotte, N.C., she began her private practice at a debtor?s firm and worked with a chapter 7 trustee before joining a larger firm, primarily representing creditors, until she was appointed as standing chapter 13 trustee. She is licensed to practice in North Carolina and South Carolina. Judge Burris is a member of the J. Bratton Davis Bankruptcy American Inn ofCourt, a member and former president of the South Carolina Bankruptcy Law Association, and a former member and chair of the South Carolina Supreme Court Bankruptcy and Debtor-Creditor SpecializationAdvisory Board. She has served on various committees and as a member of the Board of Governors for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, and as a member of the Next Generation of CM/ECF committee for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. In addition, she served as a member and chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on Audits and Administrative Office Accountability(AAOA), a group that oversees the audit processes and certain investigative activities for the federal courts, Administrative Office and related offices nationwide, and member of the 2020 Ad Hoc Strategic Planning Group for the Judicial Conference, contributing to the five-year plan for the federal courts.Judge Burris received her B.A. from Appalachian State University and her J.D. from the University ofNorth Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill.