Prominent Texas Bankruptcy Judge to Leave Complex Case Panel

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Marvin Isgur will step down from the Southern District of Texas’ two-judge panel that has drawn some of the largest Chapter 11 cases in the country.

Since 2016, complex Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas have been assigned randomly to the panel made up of Isgur and David Jones, chief judge of the court.

The bankruptcy courts in the Texas Southern District, New York’s Southern District and Delaware receive a large portion of the large, complex Chapter 11 petitions in the country.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez will replace ...