Alexander E. Schmidt is currently serving as law clerk to the Honorable John P. Gustafson of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Before graduating from Michigan State University College of Law in May of ’17, Alex interned for both the Michigan Attorney General’s Health, Education, and Family Services Division and the Social Security Administration’s Office of the General Counsel in Chicago. His career interests include public finance, government benefits programs, and the state/federal divide.

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.