A prominent Sacramento bankruptcy attorney will be sworn in as the newest federal bankruptcy court judge for the Eastern District of California later this month. Ronald H. Sargis has been a bankruptcy attorney with Hefner, Stark & Marois, LLP and the California Association of Collectors for the last 25 years. During that time, he has worked on reorganizations, argued appeals with the District Court and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, taught bankruptcy at Sacramento-area colleges, prepared creditors' rights education materials, and helped to shape collection industry policy. He has earned the respect and admiration of many in the local bankruptcy industry.,
As a federal bankruptcy judge, Sargis's duty will be to enforce bankruptcy law and ensure that neither creditors nor debtors are abused. He comes in with inside knowledge of bankruptcy court through his clerkship with a bankruptcy judge out of law school.
Every debtors bankruptcy plan, no matter how straightforward, must be approved by a bankruptcy judge. Sargis will surely have his hands full right off the bat with the high number of people currently filing bankruptcy.
