Alan C. Stout

Hon. Allan C. Stout is Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Kentucky in Louisville, appointed on Oct. 25, 2011. He presided over the City of Hillview case, which was the first municipal chapter 9 bankruptcy case filed since the City of Detroit case in 2013. Judge Stout was a practicing bankruptcy attorney in both Paducah and Marion, Ky., and has served as a chapter 7 trustee. He was admitted to practice in Kentucky in 1981 and in Illinois in 1998, and he is admitted to practice before the U.S.Supreme Court, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Courts for the Western andEastern Districts of Kentucky. Judge Stout previously served as president and on the board of directors of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees (NABT). While in private practice, he achieved anAV-Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell. Judge Stout received his B.S. in 1978 from Murray StateUniversity and his J.D. in 1981 from Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University.