Erik P. Kimball is a United States bankruptcy judge in the

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Division of the Southern District of Florida. He was appointed to the 14-year term in June 2008.

Biography

A 1983 graduate of Hopedale High School, Kimball earned a Juris Doctor from

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in 1990 and a B.A. from the

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in 1987.

Career

He started his legal practice at Hale and Dorr in the Boston office of the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Department. He left to become a vice president at Colonial Management Associates, Inc.

References

21st-century American judges Boston College Law School alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Hopedale, Massachusetts Lawyers from Boston Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr people Judges of the United States bankruptcy courts {{US-federal-judge-stub