
Career Highlights: Appointed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 2010; attorney, DLA Piper LLP, 2008-10; attorney, Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman LLP, 2006-08; attorney, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, 2001-06 and 1996-2000; attorney, Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, 2000-01
Law School: Univeristy of Virginia School of Law
By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer
RIVERSIDE - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Deborah J. Saltzman initially applied for a post on the Central District of California bankruptcy bench because she "just got tired of fighting with people" as a lawyer.
After all, part of what had attracted her to bankruptcy as a new attorney was that the practice focuses on fixing troubled companies rather than fighting individual cases, like litigation, or st... (continued)