Judge Judith Wizmur (Ret.)
Judge Judith H. Wizmur was appointed as a United States Bankruptcy Judge in 1985, and was reappointed to a second term in 1999, and a third term in 2013. She served as Chief Judge of the Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey from August 2005 to August 2012. She retired from the bench in May 2014.
Judge Wizmur is a graduate of Douglass College, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and the Rutgers University School of Law - Camden. Following a state clerkship with the Honorable Michael Patrick King, J.A.D., and several years of private practice, she served as an Administrative Law Judge and a Workers Compensation Judge in the state of New Jersey, and as Assistant Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles. She served as the Chair of the Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Group to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and also served on the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference as the Chair of the Business Subcommittee. She established the Bankruptcy Pro Bono Program at Rutgers Camden Law School, and chaired the Steering Committee for 15 years. Judge Wizmur was a contributor author of Collier on Bankruptcy, and is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. She is a recipient of the Equal Justice Award from New Jersey Legal Services, the Mary Philbrook Public Interest Award from Rutgers Law School, the Stanley Van Ness Leadership Award in Public Interest Advocacy from New Jersey Appleseed, the Conrad B. Duberstein Memorial Award for Excellence and Compassion in the Judiciary from the New York Institute of Credit, the Honorable Joseph M. Nardi, Jr. Distinguished Service Award from Rutgers University School of Law–Camden and the 2014 John F. Gerry Award.