Puerto Rico

Monday, April 2, 2018
Network Announcement
Honorable Mildred Caban sworn in as Chief Judge for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Puerto Rico

The District Judges for the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico announced the appointment of the Honorable Mildred Cabán as Chief Judge for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Puerto Rico.
Appointed on March 19, 2010, Chief Bankruptcy Judge Cabán sworn-in on Monday, April 2, 2018 in a private ceremony. She succeeds Hon. Enrique S. Lamoutte, who has served as Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge since 2009.   
Chief Judge Cabán is a member of the Federal Judicial Center’s Bankruptcy Judges Education Advisory Committee and serves as the First Circuit Representative for the Bankruptcy Judicial Advisory Group of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
 Since 2013, she chairs the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judge (“NCBJ”) Liaison Committee for the Hispanic National Bar Association “HNBA”), while also being a member of both the Judicial Council of HNBA and NCBJ. She is a member of the District Examination Committee for the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.
In 2015-2016, she was chair of the Public Outreach Committee for the NCBJ. She is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute (“ABI”), the Commercial Law League of America, and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation. As an advisory board member of C.A.R.E. (“Credit Abuse Resistance Education”), she speaks on financial literacy matters to students of all age groups,
and was the recipient of the ABI’s 2014 CARE Volunteer of the Year Award.  
In 1990, she became a bankruptcy practitioner at Brown
Newsom & Córdova. She was a partner at Goldman Antonetti & Córdova, P.S.C., where her law practice focused on representing creditors in both commercial and consumer bankruptcy cases.
 

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