Hon. Eric L. Frank

Hon. Eric L. Frank is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, initially appointed in February 2006 and appointed Chief Judge from March 2013 to February 2018.Prior to taking the bench, he was a shareholder in DiDonato and Winterhalter, P.C., a partner in Miller,Frank & Miller and a supervising attorney at Community Legal Services, Inc. in Philadelphia. From1998 to 2005, Judge Frank served as a member of the federal Judicial Conference Advisory Commit-tee on the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, where he served as chair of the subcommittee with primary responsibility for drafting numerous rules and forms amendments required by the enactment ofBAPCPA in 2005. He is a past chair of the Steering Committee of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference and a past president of the board of directors of the Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project in Philadelphia, which provides referrals and representation in chapter 7 bankruptcy cases to low-income individuals on a pro bono basis. Since 1998, Judge Frank has been a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy. He received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1973 and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1976, where he served on its law review. Following law school, he clerked for the late Justice Samuel J. Roberts of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Bruce I. Fox.