Hon. Enrique S. Lamoutte

Hon. Enrique S. Lamoutte is Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Puerto Rico in San Juan, initially appointed in November 1986. He served as Chief Judge from 1986-98 and from 2009-18. He also serves as a judge for the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the First Circuit, over which he presided as Chief Judge from 2004-08. Judge Lamoutte is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy. He previously clerked for U.S. District Judge Hernan G. Pesquera of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Puerto Rico and was chief of the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney?s Office. He also is a retired colonel of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard. Judge Lamoutte graduated from Boston College in 1969 and received his J.D. from the University of Puerto Rico Law School in 1976.