Arya Omshehe joined the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division, as a Judicial Law Clerk to Judge John P. Gustafson in 2023. A first-generation Iranian American, Arya is the first in his family to graduate from law school and become an attorney. Prior to law school, he worked closely with distressed student loan borrowers, educating them on insolvency and Department of Education repayment assistance plans.

His commitment to client advocacy led him to intern for Judge Diane Finkle in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Rhode Island during law school. Additionally, Arya served as an executive editor on the law review board, a teaching and research assistant for various professors and courses, and law clerk at a boutique Rhode Island law firm.

John P. Gustafson was appointed United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Ohio in April 2014. In his former life, he was a bankruptcy law clerk, an associate and partner in a law firm representing both debtors and creditors, a solo bankruptcy practitioner representing debtors, banks and trustees, the staff attorney to a Chapter 13 trustee, and from October 2007 to April 2014 he was the Standing Chapter 13 Trustee for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division. Judge Gustafson regularly writes and speaks on a variety of bankruptcy issues.