Maria A. Gonzalez

Hon. María de los Ángeles González-Hernández is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of PUerto Rico in Ponce, appointed on Feb. 11, 2022, and to the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the First Circuit on March 21, 2023. She has been involved in bankruptcy law for the entirety of her 30+ year legal career, most of which she has spent with the federal government. Judge González-Hernández’s legal career began in 1991 when she clerked for Hon. Enrique S. Lamoutte of the District of Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Court, following her graduation from law school. In 1994, she entered private practice at a law firm in Puerto Rico, where she was head of the consumer bankruptcy division and practiced bankruptcy, banking and real estate law for nearly three years. In 1996, Judge González- Hernández joined the U.S. Trustee’s Office in San Juan, P.R., where she was a trial attorney for 10 years, litigating chapter 7 and 11 cases. In 2006, she rejoined Judge Lamoutte’s chambers as a law clerk, and, in 2011, she became clerk of court of the District of Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Court. Judge González-Hernández is a member of the Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Bar Association, and the Honorable Raymond Acosta Puerto Rico Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. From 2013-15, she taught bankruptcy law at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law. Judge González-Hernández received her B.A. in 1987 from Colgate University in 1987, her J.D. from Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 1990, and her LL.M. from Boston University Morin Center for Banking Law Studies in 1993.