Hon. Hilary L. Barnes

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Hon. Hilary L. Barnes</strong> is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Nevada in Reno, appointed on March 31, 2023, after 24 years in private practice. Previously, she was a member of Allen Barnes &amp; Jones, PLC, a boutique bankruptcy firm, where her practice focused on bankruptcy and she represented various parties in chapter 7, 11 and 13 bankruptcy cases. From 2009-14, Judge Barnes was a partner at The Cavanagh Law Firm, P.A., where her practice focused on representing creditors in chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and bankruptcy-related litigation. From 2005-09, she was an associate and then partner at Quarles &amp; Brady LLP, where she was involved in the representation of institutional lenders, large commercial debtors, the FDIC, buyers of distressed assets, trustees and other constituents in chapter 11 proceedings, receiverships, foreclosures and guaranty litigation. While at Quarles &amp; Brady, she also devoted a significant amount of time to The Arizona Justice Project as a <em>pro bono</em> lawyer. Judge Barnes also was an associate at Stoel Rives LLP and Squire Sanders &amp; Dempsey, LLP (now Squire Patton Boggs). She was a master of the bench in the Arizona Bankruptcy American Inn of Court and served as its president from 2018-19. In addition, she chaired the State Bar of Arizona’s Bankruptcy Section from 2014-15, and she served as a Ninth Circuit Lawyer Representative from 2015-18. In that role, Judge Barnes had the honor of serving as the co-chair for the District of Arizona from 2016-17, and on the Lawyer Representatives Coordinating Committee for the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference from 2017-18. Judge Barnes currently serves as a member of the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Judges Education Committee, acting as BJEC newsletter editor. She also chairs the Nevada Local Bankruptcy Rules Committee and is a judicial co-chair of ABI’s Southwest Bankruptcy Conference. Judge Barnes is a member of ABI and the Federal Bar Association. She received her B.A. in art history with honors from the University of Chicago in 1986 and her J.D. in 1999 from the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where she served as executive editor of the <em>Jurimetrics Journal of Law, Science &amp; Technology</em>.</p>