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HON. PETER W. BOWIE is the Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of California. Judge Bowie was appointed to the bankruptcy bench in 1988. Prior to his appointment, Judge Bowie had been the chief assistant U.S. attorney in San Diego, where he oversaw operations of the criminal and civil divisions. Judge Bowie earned his B.A. degree at Wake Forest University and his J.D degree at the University of San Diego. Judge Bowie is a member of the Judicial Advisory Committee to the Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility of the American Bar Association. He served on the Executive Committee for the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference from 1991 to 1994. He is a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and a former director of the San Diego Bankruptcy Forum. HON. LOUISE DE CARL ADLER is a Federal Bankruptcy Court Judge and has served as a judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of California since being appointed in 1984. In January 2001, she completed a five-year term as Chief Judge. She served as the first female president of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (1994-1995). Judge Adler also served as a panel trustee for bankruptcy proceedings. She earned her B.A. degree at Chatham College and her J.D. degree at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law. She is a fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the International Insolvency Institute. Judge Adler was a founding member and a member of the board of the San Diego Bankruptcy Forum. HON. LAURA S. TAYLOR is a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of California. Judge Taylor was appointed to the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of California on January 10, 2008. Prior to her appointment, Judge Taylor practiced in the areas of commercial and bankruptcy law. Judge Taylor earned her B.A. degree, summa cum laude, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her J.D degree at Duke University. She is a member of the Ninth Circuit Conference Executive Committee, founder of the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program's Special Education Project, and a former board member and board chair of the San Diego Regional Center for the Developmentally Disabled. LESLIE T. GLADSTONE is a Chapter 7 Panel Trustee for the Southern District of California. She has also served on multiple occasions as a Chapter 11 trustee, examiner, Chapter 11 disbursing agent, and special master and receiver. Ms. Gladstone is a principal in the law firm of Financial Law Group, which specializes in representation of bankruptcy trustees. She earned her J.D. degree at Pepperdine University in 1989, externed for the Honorable Barry Russell in the Central District of California, was an associate at Gray Cary Ames & Frye (now DLA Piper) in their bankruptcy department and was appointed to the trustee panel in 1998. Ms. Gladstone has served on the board of the San Diego Bankruptcy Forum, the Women's Insolvency Network, the San Diego Receiver's Forum and the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees. MODERATOR - MICHAEL T. O'HALLORAN is the principal of the Law Office of Michael T. O'Halloran, where he practices in the areas of bankruptcy and insolvency law. He is certified as a specialist in business bankruptcy and consumer bankruptcy by the American Board of Certification, and as a bankruptcy specialist by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. Mr. O'Halloran was the author of a chapter in Personal and Small Business Bankruptcy Practice in California, published by the University of California, CEB, in 2003-2008. He was named the Outstanding Mediator for the Southern District of California, Bankruptcy Court, in 1991 and 1999. He earned his B.A. degree, cum laude, from the University of California, San Diego, and his J.D. degree from the University of Southern California. Mr. O'Halloran was a founding director and past president of the San Diego Bankruptcy Forum. He is a past chair of the Bankruptcy Law Advisory Commission to the Board of Legal Specialization of the State Bar of California. He is an adjunct professor in the Bankruptcy L.L.M. program at Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
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