Daniel P. Collins
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Hon. Daniel P. Collins</strong> is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Arizona in Phoenix, appointed on Jan. 18, 2013. He served as chief judge from 2014-17 and as a conflicts judge in the Districts of Guam, Hawaii and Southern California. Previously, Judge Collins was a shareholder with the Collins, May, Potenza, Baran & Gillespie, P.C. in Phoenix, practicing primarily in the areas of bankruptcy, commercial litigation and commercial transactions. Judge Collins was the 2023 president of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, is on the Ninth Circuit’s Trial Improvement Committee, sits on the JCUS’s Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Group, served on ABI’s Board of Directors and is currently a Business Court Representative in the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section. In addition, he was a founder of the Arizona Bankruptcy American Inn of Court chapter, served as the board chair for the Foundation for Senior Living, was on the St. Teresa Parish Finance Committee and Parish Council, received the St. Thomas More Award for the St. Thomas More Society, was named a Significant Sig by the Sigma Chi fraternity and was named to the Sigma Chi’s Beta Phi Chapter Hall of Fame. Judge Collins received both his B.S. in finance and accounting in 1980 and his J.D. in 1983 from the University of Arizona.</p>