HON. EUGENE R. WEDOFF

Eugene R. Wedoff is the Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, in Chicago. He has been serving as a bankruptcy judge in that district for 17 years and is presently presiding over the bankruptcy of United Air Lines and its related entities.

After graduating from the College and Law School of the University of Chicago, Judge Wedoff became a partner and member of the Executive Committee at the Chicago law firm of Jenner & Block.

In 1997, Judge Wedoff became co-chair of the Consumer Bankruptcy Committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute, and, in that capacity, prepared analyses of the bankruptcy reform legislation presented in the last several terms of Congress and testified concerning the legislation before the House Subcommittee on Commercial & Administrative Law. For his work in this area, Judge Wedoff received a special award from the ABI in 1998. Judge Wedoff drafted the model chapter 13 plan currently used in the Northern District of Illinois.

Judge Wedoff is the author of the chapter on professional employment in Queenan, Hendel and Hillinger, Chapter 11 Theory and Practice (LRP Publications, 1994), and has served as associate editor of The American Bankruptcy Law Journal. He is a director and member of the executive committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute, a member of the Board of Governors of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, and a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference. Judge Wedoff is a frequent lecturer, having presented papers on a variety of consumer and business issues. In 1995, Judge Wedoff received the Excellence in Education Award from the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges.