B.A. University of Notre Dame, Mathematics - 1969
JD Harvard Law School - 1972
Robert J. Kressel was appointed a bankruptcy judge by the district court on December 6, 1982 and reappointed by the court of appeals on December 5, 1986. Judge Kressel originally sat in St. Paul but moved to Minneapolis on January 1, 1984. Judge Kressel served as the district's second chief judge from 1986 - 1993. Since 1996, he has also been a member of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit.
Judge Kressel was born June 14, 1947, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Judge Kressel was in private practice from 1972 to 1979, also serving as a Hennepin County Conciliation Court Referee and a hearing examiner for the State of Minnesota. From 1979 to 1982, Judge Kressel was with the United States Department of Justice, serving as a bankruptcy analyst and Assistant United States Trustee for the Districts of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Robert J. Kressel has been a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Minnesota since 1982. He has also been a judge of the United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Eighth Circuit since its creation in 1996. He is currently its chief judge. Before his appointment, Judge Kressel was in private practice for seven years and with the Department of Justice for three years, in the United States Trustee’s Office.Judge Kressel has served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States and the Eighth Circuit's Gender Fairness Task Force. In the past, he has been an adjunct professor at Hamline University School of Law and William Mitchell College of Law. He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and a Contributing Author of Collier on Bankruptcy. He is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges
American Bar Association
Federal Bar Association
Minnesota State Bar Association
Hennepin County Bar Association
Commercial Law League of America
American Bankruptcy Institute
American College of Bankruptcy
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States 1994 -
Federal Judicial Center Bankruptcy
Judges' Education Committee 1993 - 1996
Eighth Circuit Judicial Council
Ex Officio Member 1992 - 1996
Eighth Circuit Gender Fairness
Task Force 1992 - 1997
American Bankruptcy Law Journal
Editorial Advisory Board 1993 -
NCBJ Board of Governors 1987 - 1990
NCBJ Endowment for Education
Board of Directors 1990 - 1991
MSBA Bankruptcy Section
HCBA Governance Committee 1989 -
Chair 1991 - 1992
HCBA Debtor-Creditor Remedies Committee
Chair 1980 - 1982;
Secretary 1979 - 1980
HCBA Governing Council 1980 - 1982
HCBA Ethics Committee 1982 - 1983
FBA, Minnesota Chapter
President 1989 - 1990
President Elect 1988 - 1989
Vice President 1985 - 1988
Director 1983 -
Member various other Committees and
Sections
ARTICLES
Tardy Claims: The Congressional Solution to the Hausladen Problem, Norton Bankruptcy Law Advisor, January 1995
Calculating the Present Value of Deferred Payments Under a Chapter 12 Plan: A New Twist to an Old Problem, 62 Am. Bankr. L. J. 313 (1988)
Ethical Considerations in Representing
Creditors and Debtors, Hennepin Lawyer,
March - April, 1982
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Minnesota Branch, Eighth Circuit
Historical Society
Executive Committee 1989 -
Vice President 1991 - 1995
President 1995 - 1997
Hennepin County Bar Association, Legal
Advice Clinics 1972 -
Girl Scout Troop 865 Cookie
Chair 1986 - 1988
Cub Scout Den Leader 1984 - 1985
YWCA of Minneapolis
Board of Trustees 1980 - 1986
Chair 1982 - 1983
Management Committee
Childrens Center Advisory Committee
Program Council
Kidney Foundation of Upper Midwest
Director 1975 - 1981
Vice Chair 1979 - 1980
Secretary 1977 - 1979
Chair of Nominating and
Bylaws Committee
National Kidney Foundation
Trustee 1976 - 1981
