Louise DeCarl Adler

Louise DeCarl Adler is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of California in San Diego, appointed in 1984. In January 2001, she completed a five-year term as Chief Judge. Judge Adler served as the first female president of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges from 1994-95, and has also served on ABI's Board of Directors. She is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the International Insolvency Institute (III). Among the no- table cases handled by Judge Adler have been the chapter 11 reorganizations of the Roman Catholic Diocese for San Diego and Imperial Counties; Maruko, Inc., the first coordinated international reorganization with chapter 11 cases filed in both the U.S. and Japan; Thrifty Oil Co.; Leap Wire- less International (a national cell phone company and its 65 related companies); and the successful reorganization of the San Diego Symphony. She was a member of the Working Group on Institu- tional Capacity for the 2000 World Bank Insolvency Initiative and a member of the World Bank Working Group on the Treatment of the Insolvency of Natural Persons. Judge Adler is a co-author of International Insolvency (Federal Judicial Center 2001), a reference book for bankruptcy judges; a contributing author to United States International Insolvency Law 2008-2009 (Oxford University Press 2009), and the author of Managing the Chapter 15 Cross-Border Insolvency Case: A Pocket         Guide for Judges (Federal Judicial Center 2011, revised 2014). She received her J.D. in 1970 from Loyola University of Chicago.