HON. CHRISTINE M. GRAVELLE serves as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of New Jersey and sits in the Trenton vicinage.  Prior to joining the bench in 2013, Judge Gravelle was a partner at the law firm of Markowitz Gravelle, LLP in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, focusing on commercial litigation and bankruptcy, representing individual and commercial debtors, creditors, trustees, and committees. 

She went to law school at night, received her Juris Doctor, graduating magna cum laude from Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA.  Following graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Donald F. Shea on the Supreme Court of Rhode Island.  She received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. 

She has written and participated in panel presentations and instructional videos for the Federal Judiciary Center.

Judge Gravelle served as President of the Mercer County Bar Association in 2011 after serving nine years as an officer and trustee for the Association.  She was a member of the Lawyers Advisory Committee to the Board of Judges of the United States Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey from 2008-2013, chairing the committee in her last year of service.  She currently serves as the judicial liaison for the committee.  Judge Gravelle also served as a trustee of the Bankruptcy Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association.  She served on the Board of Trustees of Central Jersey Legal Services as a member and officer.  She is a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges