Jerry C. Oldshue, Jr.

Hon. Jerry C. Oldshue, Jr. is Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Alabama in Mobile. Prior to taking the bench in October 2015, he was a shareholder in the firm of Rosen Harwood, P.A in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he served as the managing shareholder of the firm’s creditor’s rights department. While in practice, Judge Oldshue was admitted to practice before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, all U.S. District Courts in Alabama, and all Alabama state courts. His memberships included the Alabama State Bar (where he served as chairman of its Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section), the Tuscaloosa County Bar, ABI (for which he served as a member of its Commercial Fraud Task Force, Unsecured Trade Creditors Committee and Consumer Bankruptcy Committee), the Conference on Consumer Finance Law and the Commercial Law League of America. In 2001, Judge Oldshue became one of only seven attorneys in the state to achieve Board Certification in Creditors’ Rights Law. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1985 from the University of Alabama, after which he worked as a manufacturing engineer for General Motors and a design engineer for BellSouth before continuing his educational pursuits at The University of Alabama in 1992. He received his J.D. and M.B.A. as one of only two people invited to participate in the school’s joint degree program.