Hon. Meredith A. Jury is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California in Riverside, appointed in 1997 by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. She was also appointed to the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) of the 9th Circuit in 2007 and hears appeals from all districts in the 9th Circuit with five other Panel members. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Jury spent her entire attorney career as a civil, municipal and bankruptcy litigator for the law firm of Best, Best & Krieger in Riverside, joining as the first woman associate in 1976 and becoming its first woman partner in 1982. She has participated in innumerable panels about various aspects of bankruptcy law at local and 9th circuit programs. As a member of the BAP, Judge Jury was lead author of In re Vallejo, 408 B.R. 280 (9th Cir. BAP 2009), primarily concerning the eligibility of a city to file chapter 9. She received her B.A. cum laude from the University of Colorado, where she was elected Phi Beta Kappa and her J.D. from UCLA. She also received Masters degrees in economics and English/education from the University of Wisconsin.