Annual Club Visit by the District Governor

Edward Jellen, District 5170 Governor for 2014-15, will make his club visit for this meeting. Governor Jellen is a member of the Oakland 3 Club.

Edward Jellen, who teaches bankruptcy law, served as a US Bankruptcy Judge in the Northern District of California for 25 years before his retirement from the bench in 2012.  For seven of those years, he was the court’s Chief Judge. Judge Jellen is also a past chair of the Ninth Circuit Conference of Chief Bankruptcy Judges and the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Judges’ Education Committee. He co-authored Recent Developments in Business Bankruptcy, which appeared in the California Bankruptcy Journal annually from 1996-2006. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Jellen was in private practice in San Francisco, during which time he served as Chair of the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy section of the San Francisco Bar Association.

Judge Jellen received his J.D. from UC Berkeley, School of Law and his undergraduate degree in economics from UC Berkeley.