Hon. August B. Landis

August B. Landis is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Nevada in Las Vegas, appointed on Nov. 27, 2013. Previously, he was the Acting U.S. Trustee for Region 17 in Las Vegas. He also served as the U.S. Trustee Program's first Acting Associate General Counsel for Chapter 11 Practice, and as an Assistant U.S. Trustee for the District of Nevada. Judge Landis is a member of the Iowa State Bar As- sociation and is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Eighth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa. From 1987-90, he was an associate with the Des Moines, Iowa, firm of Neiman, Neiman, Stone & Spellman, and he also served as a chapter 7 panel trustee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Iowa. From 1990 until taking the Assistant U.S. Trustee position in Las Vegas in 2005, Judge Landis practiced with Whitfield & Eddy, P.L.C. in Des Moines, where the bulk of his work involved creditors' rights in commercial litigation, secured transactions and bankruptcy cases. Judge Landis received his J.D. from Drake Law School in Des Moines.