Section 01Overview
David C. Rawlings serves as Standing Chapter 13 Trustee for cases venued in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (S.D. Miss.). This page is a neutral public-record roster entry — it identifies the trustee’s role and the statutory framework that governs it, and links to the United States Trustee Program region office that supervises trustee activity in this district. It does not list cases the trustee has administered, attorneys who have appeared in those cases, or any characterization of trustee conduct.
Section 02Statutory Role
Standing Chapter 13 trustees are appointed by the United States Trustee under 28 U.S.C. § 586(b) to serve all Chapter 13 cases within an assigned division. A standing trustee administers hundreds or thousands of active Chapter 13 cases simultaneously, supported by an office staff. The standing trustee’s statutory duties under 11 U.S.C. § 1302 include reviewing the debtor’s plan, collecting plan payments, and disbursing plan payments to creditors.
Section 03Supervising Office
USTP Region 5
Region 5 of the United States Trustee Program covers LA, MS. The Office of the United States Trustee supervises private trustees and reviews bankruptcy administration within the region under 28 U.S.C. § 586.
Section 04Compensation Framework
Standing-trustee compensation is set under 28 U.S.C. § 586(e) as a percentage of all payments received under the plan, subject to a statutory cap fixed by the Director of the Executive Office for US Trustees. Excess collections above the statutory cap are turned over to the United States Trustee System Fund.
Section 05Court Where Trustee Appears
Court where trustee appears
United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
4603 Thad Cochran U.S. Courthouse 501 E. Court St., Suite 2.300
Jackson, MS 39201
Section 06Privacy Rule (FRBP 9037) Context
Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 9037 requires that Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, financial account numbers, and minor-child identifiers be redacted in bankruptcy filings. Trustees commonly encounter unredacted personal identifiers on proofs of claim, schedules, and exhibits. The Federal Judicial Center’s April 2024 empirical study, Unredacted Social Security Numbers in Federal Court PACER Documents, documented systemic compliance shortfalls — particularly in proof-of-claim filings, which the study found to be 98% noncompliant. OBP cites the FJC study only as national context; OBP does not publish per-trustee or per-district Rule 9037 compliance numbers.
Primary source: Unredacted Social Security Numbers in Federal Court PACER Documents (FJC, April 2024).
Section 07RECAP Coverage
Bankruptcy filings administered by trustees in the S.D. Miss. are accessible through the RECAP Archive hosted by the Free Law Project — no PACER fee, no login. If a docket you need is not yet in RECAP, the free RECAP browser extension contributes PACER documents you already paid for to the public archive at no cost to you. OBP does not maintain per-trustee case lists.
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