Chief Judge Christopher D. Jaime

Chief Judge Christopher D. Jaime was sworn in as a United States Bankruptcy Judge in the Eastern District of California (Sacramento) on January 5, 2015. He was born in Sacramento, California, and resided primarily in San Jose, California. He attended Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga, California, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in 1989. He received his J.D. in 1992 from Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon, where he served as an Associate Editor of, and was published in, the Willamette Law Review.

Chief Judge Jaime was also appointed in the District of Nevada where he served as a settlement and visiting judge in matters before the Las Vegas and Reno Divisions. He is the current chair of the Local Bankruptcy Rules Committee for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California and a former member of the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Education Committee.

Prior to his appointment to the bench, Chief Judge Jaime was a vice-president and shareholder with the Reno, Nevada, law firm of Maupin, Cox & LeGoy. He was with the law firm for 22 years. He joined the law firm as an associate in 1992 and became a shareholder in 1998. In 2014 he was recognized by the American Society of Legal Advocates as one of the Top 100 Bankruptcy Lawyers in the State of Nevada.