Karen B. Owens

Hon. Karen B. Owens is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Delaware in Wilmington. Prior to her appointment, she was a director in the Bankruptcy and Insolvency group of Ashby & Geddes, P.A., where she maintained a diverse practice, representing corporate debtors, estate professionals, various secured and unsecured creditor constituencies, and other interested parties in reorganization and liquidation proceedings and bankruptcy-related litigation. Prior to joining Ashby & Geddes, Judge Owens started her career at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom as a corporate restructuring associate, and later went on to clerk for Hon. Brendan Linehan Shannon of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. She is an adjunct professor in the Bankruptcy LL.M. Program at St. John’s University School of Law in New York, co-president of the Delaware Bankruptcy American Inn of Court, a member of the board of directors of the Philadelphia/Wilmington Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association, and a member of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation. Judge Owens received her Bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University, where she was Phi Beta Kappa, and her J.D. summa cum laude from American University’s Washington College of Law, where she served as an associate managing editor for the American University Law Review and as legal intern to Hon.Stephen S. Mitchell of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.