Erik P. Kimball serves as a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge in the Southern District of Florida, West Palm Beach Division. He was appointed in 2008. Judge Kimball received his J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1990 and his B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1987. Judge Kimball began his legal practice at Hale and Dorr (now WilmerHale) in the firm’s Boston office, where he was a member of the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Department. He twice left legal practice to work in the mutual fund industry as an investment professional, with Colonial Management Associates and Columbia Management Investment Advisors. At the time of his judicial appointment in 2008, Judge Kimball was a shareholder at Akerman in the firm’s Orlando office. In legal practice, he specialized in representation of institutional investors and indenture trustees in connection with defaults of publicly traded debt securities.