Christopher M. Klein is an American

judge A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges. A judge hears all the witnesses and any other evidence presented by the barristers or solicitors of the case, assesses the credibility an ...

. Chris Klein earned bachelor's and master's degrees from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

and obtained his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School, where he became an executive editor of the '' University of Chicago Law Review''. Later he was admitted to various bars in the United States. He served in the Marine Corps of the United States Army as an artillery officer during the Vietnam War, following which he was a trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice for such companies as National Railroad Passenger Corporation and Steen & Hamilton. In 1988, the

Eastern District of California The United States District Court for the Eastern District of California (in case citations, E.D. Cal.) is a federal court in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Ninth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the ...

hired him as a bankruptcy judge and ten years later promoted him to Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, where he served another ten years. From 2000 to 2007, he was a member of the American Judicial Conference's Committee on Bankruptcy Rules and advisory committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence. In 2001 he co-authored ''Bankruptcy Rules Made Easy'' and the same year published his ''A Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that Apply in Bankruptcy''.

References

20th-century births Brown University alumni University of Chicago alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Judges of the United States bankruptcy courts {{US-federal-judge-stub