Kevin R. Huennekens

Hon. Kevin R. Huennekens is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia in Richmond, appointed on Sept. 11, 2006. Prior to his appointment, Judge Huennekens was a partner with the firm of Kutak Rock LLP. He also served as a panel trustee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the EasternDistrict of Virginia (1988-2006) and is co-editor of the Virginia CLE publication Bankruptcy Practice inVirginia (2017). Judge Huennekens is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and ABI. He was also recognized in Who’s Who LegalUSA in Insolvency and Restructuring and The International Who’s Who of Insolvency and Restructuring in 2006, and was listed in The Best Lawyers in America from 1995-2006. Judge Huennekens was an adjunct professor of law at the College of William & Mary Marshall Wythe School of Law from 1993-96, and he successfully argued the case of Patterson v. Shumate, 405 U.S. 253, 112 S. Ct. 2242 (1992),before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a planning committee member of the annual Mid-Atlantic Institute on Bankruptcy and Reorganization Practice and has also been a speaker at Virginia CLE courses on basic and advanced bankruptcy. He is also a co-editor of the Virginia CLE Publication, BankruptcyPractice in Virginia (2017). Judge Huennekens chaired the Advisory Committee on Executory Contracts and Leases of the ABI Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11. He received his B.A. from theCollege of William & Mary and his J.D. from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and its law review.