Hon. Benjamin Arthur Kahn

Bio

Hon. Benjamin A. Kahn is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina in Greensboro, sworn in on Feb. 3, 2014. He also is a member of the U.S. Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Bankruptcy Rules, and chairs its Forms Subcommittee. Judge Kahn serves as faculty for Phase I and Phase II Orientation for Newly Appointed Bankruptcy Judges, having previously served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Judge Education for the Federal Judicial Center from 2019-25 and as its chair from 2020-25. In addition, he is a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference, for which he currently serves on its Nominating Committee and chairs its Committee on the Court System and Bankruptcy Administration, and previously served on the Executive Committee and Nominating Committee. Judge Kahn is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the board of editors for Collier on Bankruptcy, for which he is a contributing author. He served as the judicial chair of ABI’s Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop from 2019-23. Judge Kahn is Board Certified in Business and Consumer Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification, for which he served as a member of its board of directors until his appointment to the bench. Prior to joining the bench, he was a certified mediator in North Carolina. He also was recognized as among the Top 10 North Carolina Super Lawyers across all practice areas for the two years immediately preceding his appointment, elected to the Legal Elite Hall of Fame by Business North Carolina Magazine in 2014 as the category winner in North Carolina for Bankruptcy, and was included among Band 1 bankruptcy practitioners in North Carolina in Chambers and Partners USA. Judge Kahn received his B.A. in political science and history in 1990, and his J.D. with honors in 1993, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.