MID-SOUTH COMMERCIAL LAW INSTITUTE FACULTY
JAMES D. GREGG
JAMES D. GREGG is the Chief Judge (1997-2005; 2007 to present) of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Michigan. He was first appointed by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on June 1, 1987, and reappointed to a second fourteen-year term in 2001. Judge Gregg was on the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (2004-07). He also was a visiting judge in the United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern District of Florida (1997-99; 2001) and the Eastern District of Michigan (1997-99; 2001-03). During 2002-03, Judge Gregg was the President of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. He previously served as the Treasurer and as an At-Large Governor of that organization. He also served for six years (2003-08) on the Board of Directors of the American Bankruptcy Institute where he also was the Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee. Judge Gregg is a co-author of Michigan Practice Guide: Enforcing Judgments and Debts and was previously a contributing editor to Norton Bankruptcy Law & Practice 2d. He has served as an adjunct professor and taught bankruptcy law courses at The Thomas Cooley Law School. He is a Fellow (Class VIII) in the American College of Bankruptcy. He has been an education chair, a speaker, or a panelist at more than one hundred and twenty educational seminars for many organizations throughout the United States. Prior to his appointment, he specialized in commercial law, bankruptcy, and corporate reorganizations, was a partner of Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was designated in The Best Lawyers in America (1987). Judge Gregg earned an undergraduate degree from Michigan State University, a masters degree from Central Michigan University, and a J.D. degree (magna cum laude) from Wayne State University.
