Hon. Elizabeth S. Stong

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Hon. Elizabeth S. Stong has served as a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn since 2003. Prior to her appointment the bench, she was a litigation partner and associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York, an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and law clerk to Hon. A. David Mazzone, U.S. District Judge in the District of Massachusetts. Judge Stong is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council of the American Law Institute, and the boards of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, the Practising Law Institute, the New York County Lawyers’ Association and the New York Law Institute. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought and the Advisory Board of P.R.I.M.E. Finance, an international dispute resolution and judicial training organization, as well as co-chair of the New York City Bar’s Middle East-North Africa Law Committee. Judge Stong regularly serves as a delegate to UNCITRAL’s Working Groups on Arbitration and Conciliation and Insolvency, and is an elected member of the European Law Institute. She also chairs the ABA Standing Committee on Continuing Legal Education and holds leadership roles in the International Insolvency Institute, ABI and the ABA’s Business Law Section, International Law Section and Judicial Division. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School. Judge Stong has trained judges in more than 25 countries on five continents, including North, Central and West Africa, Central Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula and South America, with the U.S. Commerce Department Commercial Law Development Program, the World Bank, INSOL and the ABA-Rule of Law Initiative, among other entities. She also has consulted with the Supreme Court of China and People’s High Courts in Beijing and Guangzhou, the Uganda Registration Services Bureau, and recently has led judicial workshops and consultations in Bahrain, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Nigeria and Brazil, among other venues. Judge Stong received the ABA International Law Section’s Mayre Rasmussen Award for the Advancement of Women in International Law, the New York City Bar “Her Hero” Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Bar Foundation’s Outstanding State Chair Award, the ABA Glass Cutter Award, the NYIC Honorable Burton R. Lifland Mentor of the Year Award, the NYIC Hon. Cecelia Goetz Award, the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors Judicial Service Award, the MFY Legal Services Scales of Justice Award, and the Brooklyn Bar Association’s Freda Nisnewitz Award for Pro Bono Service, among others. She received her A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she received the Williston Prize, and she studied at the Université des Sciences Sociales in Toulouse, France, as a Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellow.

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