Clifton R. Jessup, Jr.

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Hon. Clifton R. Jessup, Jr.</strong> is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Alabama in Huntsville, appointed on March 2, 2015. He was formerly a principal shareholder in the Dallas office of Greenburg Traurig, LLP, where he concentrated his practice in business reorganization and bankruptcy. During his more than 35 years of bankruptcy-related practice before taking the bench, Judge Jessup represented secured creditors, unsecured creditors, committees, equity-holders, debtors and trustees in federal bankruptcy cases in more than 37 states and Puerto Rico. He also represented purchasers of assets in bankruptcy cases, and served as examiner and mediator in many cases. In 2001, Judge Jessup was selected as the liquidating trustee under the confirmed chapter 11 plan in the Baptist Foundation of Arizona, the largest nonprofit bankruptcy cases filed to date. The cases involved more than 13,000 investors and claims in excess of $600 million. In 2009, he represented the Opus West Corp. in a chapter 11 case involving more than 50 commercial real estate properties in California and Texas with claims in excess of $1.2 billion. Judge Jessup is a member of the Advisory Committee to ABI’s Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11 and of the Texas State Bar. He received his J.D. in 1978 from the University of Michigan.</p>