Hon. August B. Landis

Bio

Hon. August B. Landis is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Nevada in Las Vegas, appointed on Nov. 27, 2013. He served a term as Chief Judge from April 1, 2020, until March 31, 2025, and a one-year term as chair of the Ninth Circuit Conference of Chief Bankruptcy Judges from Oct. 1, 2023, to Sept. 30, 2024. Between 2005 and his appointment to the bench, Judge Landis served as an Assistant U.S. Trustee for the District of Nevada in Las Vegas, as the U.S. Trustee Program’s first Acting Associate General Counsel for Chapter 11 Practice, and as the Acting U.S. Trustee for Region 17. Prior to joining the U.S. Trustee Program, he was an attorney in private practice with the Des Moines, Iowa, firms of Neiman, Neiman, Stone & Spellman (1987-90) and Whitfield & Eddy, P.L.C. (1990-2005), representing debtors, creditors and a chapter 7 panel trustee in contested matters and adversary proceedings. Judge Landis is a member of the Iowa State Bar Association. He received his B.S. in business administration from Drake University in 1984 and his J.D. from Drake Law School in 1987, where he served as a staff member of the Drake Law Review.