Staff Information
One Bowling Green
New York, NY 10004-1408
Upon Judge Gerber's retirement effective January 22, 2016, Chief Judge Cecelia Morris will handle all of Judge Gerber's cases other than GM. With respect to those matters, please direct all inquiries to
Courtroom Deputy: Lynda Calderon
(212) 284-4055
Law Clerk: Annie Wells
(212) 284-4046
Judge Tabs
Robert E. Gerber is a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York, having been appointed in 2000 and reappointed in 2014. He assumed recall status in January 2015. Since his appointment to the bench, Judge Gerber has presided over a wide variety of chapter 11, chapter 7, chapter 15, section 304 and SIPA cases—including PSINet, Ames Department Stores, Global Crossing, Adelphia, ABIZ, Basis Yield Alpha Fund, Lyondell Chemical, BearingPoint, DBSD North America, Chemtura, Pinnacle Airlines, Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt and General Motors. He has presided over more than 20 cases with over $100 million in debt, including 10 with over $1 billion in debt.
Judge Gerber has issued about 200 published opinions, principally in the business bankruptcy and corporate governance areas.
Judge Gerber earned a B.S. degree in industrial engineering, with high honors, from Rutgers University (from which he graduated in 1967), and a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Columbia Law School, from which he graduated in 1970, and where, among other things, he was a James Kent Scholar. Before going on the bench, he was a partner with the firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, in New York City, specializing in securities and commercial litigation and, thereafter, bankruptcy litigation and counseling.
He is a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy; an Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School; and a Fellow (and Director) of the American College of Bankruptcy. He has been named as one of the nation’s outstanding bankruptcy judges six times.