Hon. Mildred Cabán Flores

Hon. Mildred Cabán Flores is Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Puerto Rico in San Juan, initially sworn in on March 19, 2010, and appointed Chief Judge in 2018. She serves on the District Examination Committee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, the First Circuit Judicial Council as the Bankruptcy Observer, and the First Circuit Judicial Council Civics and Education Committee. She also completed her term as a member of the Federal Judicial Center Board and Education Committee. Judge Cabán Flores is a member of ABI and the American Bar Association, Commercial Law League of America, Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA), International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ), Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity and the Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Bar Association. For NCBJ, she serves on its Public Outreach Committee. In the past, Judge Cabán Flores chaired various NCBJ committees, such as the Public Outreach Committee, Diversity, Security, and the Liaison of the HNBA, as well as First Circuit Governor. Following law school, she clerked for Hon. Héctor M. Laffitte of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. She subsequently practiced bankruptcy at Brown Newsom & Córdova and then as a partner at Goldman Antonetti & Córdova, P.S.C., where she focused on representing creditors in commercial and consumer bankruptcy cases. Judge Cabán Flores has been a speaker for various organizations on bankruptcy and consumer law topics. She also is an advisory board member of CARE (Credit Abuse Resistance Education) and speaks on financial literacy matters to students of all age groups. She received ABI’s 2014 CARE Volunteer of the Year Award. Judge Cabán Flores received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1983 and her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1986.

Hon. Mildred Caban