Christine Gravelle

Hon. Christine M. Gravelle is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of New Jersey in Trenton, named to the bench in 2013. Previously, she was a partner at the law firm of Markowitz Gravelle, LLP in Lawrenceville, N.J., where she focused on commercial litigation and bankruptcy, representing indi- vidual and commercial debtors, creditors, trustees and committees. Judge Gravelle served as president of the Mercer County Bar Association in 2011 after serving nine years as an officer and trustee for the Association. She was a member of the Lawyers Advisory Committee to the Board of Judges of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey from 2008-13, having chaired the committee in her last year of service. She currently serves as the judicial liaison for the committee. She also served as a trustee of the Bankruptcy Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, and she served on the Board of Trustees of Central Jersey Legal Services as a member and officer. She served on the board of trustees of Central Jersey Legal Services as a member and officer, and she is a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. Ms. Gravelle received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from the Uni- versity of Massachusetts at Amherst and her J.D. magna cum laude from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, after which she clerked for Hon. Donald F. Shea on the Supreme Court of Rhode Island.