TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 1, 2020

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge George W. Emerson Jr., who has served in the Western District of Tennessee for 14 years, retired yesterday. Emerson earned his law degree from the University of Memphis in 1980 and went to work for the Western District bankruptcy court, serving first as a law clerk to the late Judge William B. Leffler and then as clerk of the court. He later joined and became a partner in the law firm of Stevenson & Emerson. He served as a Chapter 7 Trustee from 1983 to 2006 and as a Standing Chapter 13 Trustee from 1988 to 2006. He also taught bankruptcy law for the paralegal studies program at the University of Memphis. Emerson was named bankruptcy judge in 2006. While in office, he served a four-year term on the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Sixth Circuit as the Sixth Circuit representative on the Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Group.