Hon. Melanie L. Cyganowski (ret.)

Hon. Melanie L. Cyganowski is a partner with Otterbourg P.C. in New York and chairs its Bankruptcy practice. She joined the firm in 2008 after serving a full 14-year term as a U.S. BankruptcyJudge for the Eastern District of New York and as its Chief Judge from 2005-08. She is currently co-counsel to the Ad Hoc Committee in Purdue Pharma, and was appointed as a member of a blue-ribbon committee by the Rockville Center Diocese with former Chief Bankruptcy Judge ArthurGonzalez and former Comptroller of the City of New York Harrison J. Goldin. Judge Cyganowski?sfiduciary appointments include receiver in SEC v. Platinum Partners; CRO and temporary opera-tor of Brooklyn?s Interfaith Medical Center; patient care ombudsman in Randolph Hospital Inc.,Promise Healthcare, Orianna Health Systems, 21st Century Oncology and California Proton; auditor of Capital One; and various trusteeships. She also served as special master in Vivendi and Neogenix Oncology, a court-appointed expert in Orion HealthCorp, and an arbitrator/mediator in cases including Madoff and Lehman. Judge Cyganowski has testified as an expert in international cases involving U.S. bankruptcy laws. She is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, sits on the editorial advisory board of the Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Practice & Law, and is an adjunct professor at St. John?s University School of Law in the Bankruptcy LL.M. Program. She also is active in philanthropic organizations, including Tina?s Wish. Judge Cyganowski received her J.D.magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law in 1981.

Melanie L. Cyganowski