Mary P. Gorman

Hon. Mary P. Gorman is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of Illinois in Springfield, appointed in September 2005 by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She served as Chief Judge from January 2013 until August 2019. Prior to her appointment to the bench, she was in private practice, con- centrating in bankruptcy and commercial transactions and litigation, and she was admitted to practice in the Illinois Supreme Court, the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Tax Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Gorman is a past president of the Win- nebago County Bar Association and has been active on the Illinois State Bar Association’s Task Force on the Unauthorized Practice of Law and the Commercial, Banking, and Bankruptcy Section Council. From 1999-2003, she was an adjunct professor of bankruptcy law at the Northern Illinois University College of Law. Judge Gorman is a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, ABI, and the Illinois State, Winnebago County and Sangamon County Bar Associations. She has served on the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts’ Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Group and on the Adminis- trative Office’s Budget and Finance Advisory Council. Judge Gorman recently completed seven years of service as one of the five bankruptcy judge representatives on the Judicial Conference Committee on the Administration of the Bankruptcy System. During her service on the Bankruptcy Committee, she served as a liaison to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules and the Judicial Conference Budget Committee’s Economic Subcommittee. She also was a member of the task force created by the Bankruptcy Committee to review current policies, rules and regulations regarding unclaimed funds, and she currently serves as a member of the Administrative Office’s Judiciary Data Working Group. Judge Gorman received her undergraduate degree with honors from Rosary College (now Dominican University) and also attended the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. She received her J.D. with high honors from the University of Illinois College of Law, where she served as a member of its law review and the Order of the Coif.