United States Bankruptcy Judge Mark S. Wallace Biographical Information

Appointment:

Appointed January 20, 2011 by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (current term expires January 20, 2025) as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California. Judge Wallace maintains chambers at the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Santa Ana, California.

Education:

Princeton University, A.B. I976 (summa cum laude) in History, Phi Beta Kappa Columbia University School of Law, J.D. 1977

Notes and Comments Editor, Columbia Law Review

Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

Judge Wallace participated in the joint Princeton-Columbia Accelerated Interdisciplinary Legal Education Program, enabling him to complete college and law school in six years instead of seven. He is a member of the Princeton University Class of 1975.

Career Record:

1991-2011

Stutman, Treister & Glatt Professional Corporation

1979-1991

Meyer Hendricks Victor Osborn & Maledon

1977-1979

Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable William B. Enright,

United States District Judge, Southern District of California

Prior to taking the bench, Judge Wallace was a Chair of the Bankruptcy and Workouts Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation and a Chair of the Taxation Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. He served as an Adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School from 2002 through 2010, where he taught a class in bankruptcy taxation. During the 1980s, he served as an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University College of Law, where he taught classes in federal income taxation and business planning.