Jenny L. Doling

Bio

Jenny L. Doling is the founding member of J. Doling Law, PC in Palm Desert, Calif., which serves clients throughout California. She represents creditors, trustees, and consumer and business debtors and family farmers in chapter 7, 11, 12 and 13 bankruptcy and insolvency matters, and bankruptcy-related appeals. She is a California State Bar Certified Bankruptcy Specialist. Additionally, Ms. Doling earned her Taxation LL.M. at the University of San Diego School of Law. She is admitted to the U.S. Tax Court and handles tax controversy matters nationwide. She is an active member of the bankruptcy bar. She is the Vice President of NACBA and was the 2024 President and member of the board of directors of the San Diego Bankruptcy Forum, as well as a past president of the Inland Empire Bankruptcy Forum. Ms. Doling is a frequent speaker on bankruptcy and law practice management topics for NACBA, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ), the National Association of Chapter Thirteen Trustees (NACTT), ABI and the California Bankruptcy Forum (CBF). In addition, she has been the professor of bankruptcy law at the California Desert Trial Academy (CDTA) since 2015, and she serves on the Central District of California Bar Advisory Committee, meeting quarterly with the Central District of California bankruptcy judges. In 2023, Chief Justice John G. Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court appointed Ms. Doling to serve a three-year term on the Judicial Conference Bankruptcy Rules Committee, and was recently reappointed for a second term expiring in October 2028. She is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in California and Nevada, and before the U.S. Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals. Ms. Doling was a member of the Desert Defenders Conflict Panel for Riverside County, representing indigent clients in misdemeanor cases under the Conflict Panel for nearly 10 years. She received her B.A. in criminal justice and her J.D. from California Western School of Law in San Diego in 1999, where she received an Academic Achievement Award in Bankruptcy and was also honored with an Award for Excellence from the American Bankruptcy Law Journal.