G. Eric Brunstad, Jr.
Dechert, LLP
Hartford, CT

Eric is a partner at Dechert, LLP. He has argued 11 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, including matters involving bankruptcy, the First Amendment, fee-shifting, taxation, the Commerce Clause, statutory interpretation, jurisdiction, and arbitration. His most recent argument was on behalf of the respondent in MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC, no. 21-1270 (2023). In addition to the cases he has argued, Eric has worked on over 70 other matters in the Supreme Court. He has also argued and briefed numerous cases in most of the federal courts of appeals and has argued two en banc matters in the Third and Eighth Circuits. In addition to his practice, he is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School, a Professor (Adjunct) of Law at New York University School of Law, and an Adjunct Professor at Boston College Law School, teaching courses on secured transactions, bankruptcy, advanced business reorganizations, argument and reason, federal jurisdiction, poetic and legal interpretation, commercial transactions, and international insolvency law. He began teaching at Yale in 1990 and has also taught at the Harvard Law School and Georgetown University Law Center. He is a 2021 recipient of a Yale Law School Teacher of the Year award. He is also the 2019 recipient of the American Bar Association Business Law Section National Public Service Award for his pro bono work, and the 2019 recipient of the Commercial Law League’s Lawrence P. King award for excellence.

Judicial Clerkship
Hon. T. Emmet Clarie, U.S. District Court, D. Conn., 1986-87

Publications and Lectures
Eric is a contributing author for the Collier treatise on bankruptcy law, has published a number of scholarly articles, and has lectured widely on a broad range of subjects. He has also published two textbooks: “Secured Transactions, Teaching Materials,” with his co-authors, Professors Jim White, and Heather Hughes; and “Bankruptcy, Cases and Materials,” with his co-author, Professor Margaret Howard.

Honorable Eric D. Miller
US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, Seattle, WA

Honorable Miller is a United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit. He was appointed on March 4, 2019. His chambers are in Seattle, Washington. Prior to his appointment, Judge Miller was in private practice in Seattle, where he also served as a part-time lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law. He previously served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, as Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, as an attorney on the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and as an attorney-adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Judge Miller received his A.B. from Harvard University and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the Honorable Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Honorable Morgan Christen
US Court of Appeals for the
9th Circuit, Anchorage, AK

Judge Morgan Christen was appointed to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in January of 2012. She currently serves on the Ninth Circuit’s Judicial Council, the Ninth Circuit’s Executive Committee, and the Pacific Island Committee. She chairs the Court-Council Committee on Bankruptcy Appointments, as well as the Cameras in the Courtroom Committee. In October 2019, Judge Christen began a three-year term on the Judicial Conference Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction. Judge Christen currently serves on the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society Advisory Board. She chaired the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee for District 14 from 2017 to 2020.

Prior to her appointment to the Ninth Circuit, Judge Christen served as a justice on the Alaska Supreme Court. Judge Christen was born and raised in Washington, and attended college in England, Switzerland, and the People’s Republic of China. She earned a B.A. degree from the University of Washington in International Studies and a J.D. degree from Golden Gate University School of Law. After law school, Judge Christen clerked for Judge Brian Shortell, and then joined Preston Gates & Ellis where she practiced civil litigation. Judge Christen was appointed to the Alaska Superior Court in 2001 and served as Presiding Judge of Alaska’s Third Judicial District from 2005-2009.

Judge Christen was awarded the Light of Hope Award for work on behalf of Alaska’s children and she and her husband, Jim Torgerson, were named Philanthropists of the Year in 2004. Judge Christen is a past recipient of the Alaska Supreme Court’s Community Outreach Award, the Chamber of Commerce Athena Award, and she is a YWCA Woman of Achievement. Judge Christen and her husband live in Anchorage. They have one daughter.

Honorable Robert J. Faris
US Bankruptcy Court, District of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI

Judge Faris is the U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Hawaii. He received a B.A. from Reed College in 1980 and his J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, in 1983. From 1983 until 2002, he practiced with a Honolulu law firm. His practice emphasized business restructuring, insolvency, and commercial litigation. He became a bankruptcy judge in February 2002 and was appointed to the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit in August 2015. He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, and the American College of Bankruptcy.

Patricia Ann Redmond
Stearns Weaver Miller
Miami, FL

Patricia “Trish” Redmond, Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights Shareholder was elected Chair of the American College of Bankruptcy Board of Regents. Trish is the first woman in the College’s history to hold this position. The Board of Regents is responsible for the nomination and selection of qualified candidates to fellowships in the College.

Trish was inducted as a XV Class Fellow in 2003 and has served as a Regent for the 11th Circuit for the past (3) years. She has also served as Chair of the College’s Distinguished Law Student Committee and as a member of the College’s Foundation Board of Directors from 2005-2011, including as Secretary for a 3-year term.

Trish has served on the Board of Directors and held various leadership roles for the American Bankruptcy Institute (“ABI”), the American Bar Association (“ABA”), the Bankruptcy Bar Association for the Southern District of Florida (“BBASDFL”) and the Dade County Bar Association (“DCBA”).

Trish has devoted countless hours to providing pro bono legal services to thousands of underprivileged and low-income individuals, children, and families. She founded the Bankruptcy Assistance Clinic both at St. Thomas University School of Law as well as the University of Miami. Trish is also an adjunct professor of law and a frequent presenter, both locally and nationally, on topics related to bankruptcy law. She has been the recipient of several prestigious accolades including the ABA Business Law Section’s Jean Allard Glass Cutter Award and The Florida Bar’s Tobias Simon Bro Bono Service Award.

Trish focuses her practice on bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. She has extensive experience representing creditors’ committees, secured creditors, and debtors in Chapter 11 cases. Trish is routinely recognized by leading peer and client legal ranking publications including being recognized with the highest ranking (Band 1) in Chambers USA, as a “Top 100”, “Top 50 Women” and “Top 100 Miami” Florida Super Lawyers, and as a “Lawyer of the Year” multiple times in The Best Lawyers in America.

G. Eric Brunstad, Jr.
Dechert, LLP
Hartford, CT

Eric is a partner at Dechert, LLP. He has argued 11 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, including matters involving bankruptcy, the First Amendment, fee-shifting, taxation, the Commerce Clause, statutory interpretation, jurisdiction, and arbitration. His most recent argument was on behalf of the respondent in MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC, no. 21-1270 (2023). In addition to the cases he has argued, Eric has worked on over 70 other matters in the Supreme Court. He has also argued and briefed numerous cases in most of the federal courts of appeals and has argued two en banc matters in the Third and Eighth Circuits. In addition to his practice, he is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School, a Professor (Adjunct) of Law at New York University School of Law, and an Adjunct Professor at Boston College Law School, teaching courses on secured transactions, bankruptcy, advanced business reorganizations, argument and reason, federal jurisdiction, poetic and legal interpretation, commercial transactions, and international insolvency law. He began teaching at Yale in 1990 and has also taught at the Harvard Law School and Georgetown University Law Center. He is a 2021 recipient of a Yale Law School Teacher of the Year award. He is also the 2019 recipient of the American Bar Association Business Law Section National Public Service Award for his pro bono work, and the 2019 recipient of the Commercial Law League’s Lawrence P. King award for excellence.

Judicial Clerkship
Hon. T. Emmet Clarie, U.S. District Court, D. Conn., 1986-87

Publications and Lectures
Eric is a contributing author for the Collier treatise on bankruptcy law, has published a number of scholarly articles, and has lectured widely on a broad range of subjects. He has also published two textbooks: “Secured Transactions, Teaching Materials,” with his co-authors, Professors Jim White, and Heather Hughes; and “Bankruptcy, Cases and Materials,” with his co-author, Professor Margaret Howard.