The Open Bankruptcy Project aims to be the most accurate and most current public reference for the people and offices that administer the United States bankruptcy system. This page explains where our directory data comes from, how often we re-verify it, how we handle privacy, and how anyone (including the listed trustees, clerks, and court staff) can submit a sourced correction.
Are you a trustee, clerk, or staff member in a district we list? You are the most authoritative source for your own entry. If anything is out of date or incorrect, please submit a sourced correction. We verify and apply confirmed corrections promptly.
1. What this page covers
This policy covers the factual directory: the names, statutory roles (United States Trustee, Chapter 7 panel, standing Chapter 13, Chapter 12, Subchapter V), districts, and supervising offices listed for bankruptcy trustees and judges. The directory is descriptive public-record information. It is separate from our empirical research and analysis, which is documented on our Research Methodology page.
2. Where the data comes from
Directory entries are built from official public sources, not informal scrapes:
- United States Trustee Program (EOUST / DOJ) rosters: the national Chapter 7 panel, standing Chapter 13, Chapter 12, and Subchapter V trustee lists.
- Bankruptcy Administrator court sites for Alabama and North Carolina, which administer trustees outside the U.S. Trustee Program and publish their own rosters on their
uscourts.govsites. - Each U.S. Bankruptcy Court for judge listings, chambers information, and local procedures.
- CourtListener and PACER for the underlying public case dockets.
Statutory role descriptions cite Title 11 of the United States Code and 28 U.S.C. sections 581 to 589a.
3. How we keep it current
Rosters change as trustees are appointed, retire, change roles, or move districts. We keep the directory current in three ways:
- Recurring re-verification against the authoritative rosters above, with the directory rebuilt from the official lists rather than carried forward indefinitely.
- A "Last reviewed" date on every page, which reflects when that entry was last checked against its source. We only advance that date when the entry is actually re-verified.
- Sourced corrections from the public, especially from the listed individuals and their offices, which are our fastest signal that something has changed.
Where our records show a person who previously appeared in the public record but who is not on a current official roster, we label the page as a historical public-record reference and state plainly that it is not a current-roster designation.
4. Privacy
The directory publishes only public-record information drawn from the sources above. We do not publish Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, dates of birth, or other identifiers protected by Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 9037, and we do not publish per-trustee compensation figures. If you believe a protected identifier of that kind appears anywhere on the site, please tell us specifically and we will remove it right away.
5. Submitting a correction
If an entry is inaccurate or out of date, please contact us and include:
- the page URL,
- what is incorrect,
- the correct information, and
- a source we can verify it against (an official roster, a docket, or a
.govpage).
We verify every correction against an authoritative source before applying it, and we update the page's "Last reviewed" date when we do.
One limit, applied evenly: we correct inaccuracies, but we do not remove accurate public-record information on request. Bankruptcy filings and trustee rosters are public records under federal law. If your concern is the underlying court record itself, that is addressed by the court where the case was filed.
6. Licensing
The Open Bankruptcy Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 41-5159631). Derived directory data is published under CC BY-SA 4.0.