Wesley Howard Avery, Esq.

Wesley H. Avery is a bankruptcy practitioner with The Bankruptcy Law Center in Pasadena, Calif., and a member of the California State Bar. He is also a chapter 7 panel trustee and a chapter 12 trustee for the Central District of California. Mr. Avery is certified as a specialist in Bankruptcy Law by the State Bar of California and the American Board of Certification. He is AV-rated by Martindale Hubbell and 10.0 by Avvo, and has been a Super Lawyer since 2006. Mr. Avery is ad- mitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, all Federal District Courts of California, other federal courts and the California Supreme Court. He previously served as a major in the U.S. Army from 1996-97, at which time he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. He is a member of the ABA Subcommittee on Legal Specialization, was chairman of the California State Bar Bankruptcy Law Advisory Commission (2004-05) and was chairman of the State Board of Legal Specialization (2010-11). Mr. Avery is an adjunct professor at California State University at Northridge and a real estate broker. He received his B.A. with highest honors in economics and in political science from the University of California at Davis in 1980 (where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa), his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1984 and his J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1991.