The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has voted to appoint Shelley C. Chapman of Willkie Farr & Gallagher as a Southern District bankruptcy judge sitting at Bowling Green, Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs announced yesterday. “We are pleased that a bankruptcy lawyer of the caliber of our current appointee will be sitting on the SDNY bankruptcy bench which handles so many large and complex bankruptcies such as General Motors, Chrysler and Lehman Brothers,” Judge Jacobs said in a statement.
Ms. Chapman is a partner in Willkie Farr’s business reorganization and restructuring department where she represents debtors, creditors and other parties of interest in major Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings. Before joining Willkie Farr, she was a partner at the firm then known as Sidley & Austin. From 2001 to 2007, Ms. Chapman served on the board of directors of inMotion, a not-for-profit that provides pro bono legal services to indigent women and children in New York City in the areas of matrimonial, family and immigration law. She served a three-year term as board chair from 2004-2007. Ms. Chapman is a graduate of Cornell University and the Harvard School of Law, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
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