Adjunct Professor of Law
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Eastern District of New York
Member, Council and Audit Committee of the American Law
Institute
Trustee and Member, Executive Committee of the Practising Law
Institute
Co-chair, the International ADR Committee of the International
Insolvency Institute
Serves on the ABA Standing Committee on CLE
Member, ABA National Conference of Federal Trial Judges Executive
Committee
Chair, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges International
Judicial Relations Committee
J.D. and A.B., magna cum laude, Harvard University
Judge Elizabeth S. Stong has served as U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for
the Eastern District of New York since 2003. Before entering
on duty, she was a litigation partner and associate at Willkie Farr
& Gallagher in New York, an associate at Cravath, Swaine &
Moore, and law clerk to Hon. A. David Mazzone, U.S. District Judge
in the District of Massachusetts.
Judge Stong is a member of the Council and Audit Committee of the
American Law Institute, a Trustee and member of the Executive
Committee of the Practising Law Institute, co-chair of the
International ADR Committee of the International Insolvency
Institute, and P.R.I.M.E. Finance, an international dispute
resolution organization that promotes judicial education in complex
financial disputes. She serves on the ABA Standing Committee
on CLE, is a member of the ABA National Conference of Federal Trial
Judges Executive Committee, and is active in the leadership of the
ABA Business Law Section. She chairs the National Conference
of Bankruptcy Judges International Judicial Relations Committee and
has trained judges in North Africa, the Middle East, and the
Arabian Peninsula, as an expert with the World Bank, the
International Finance Corporation, and U.S. Department of Commerce
Commercial Law Development Program. She has also consulted
with the Supreme Court of China and People’s High Courts in Beijing
and Guangzhou, and has led judicial workshops in Brazil and
Argentina. Judge Stong is an adjunct professor at St. John’s
University School of Law and Brooklyn Law School.
Judge Stong previously served as President of the Harvard Law
School Association, Vice President of the Federal Bar Council, Vice
President of the Board of Directors of New York City Bar Fund Inc.
and the City Bar Justice Center, Chair of the New York City Bar’s
Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and Vice Chair of its
Judiciary Committee, and an officer of the ABA Business Law
Section. She was also a member of the board of MFY Legal
Services, Inc., one of the largest providers of free civil legal
services to low-income residents of New York City, and served on
the ABA’s Commission on Women in the Profession and Commission on
Homelessness and Poverty.
Judge Stong teaches Consumer Bankruptcy.