U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California
Career Highlights: Reappointed May 2024, served as chief bankruptcy judge 2019-2022, appointed to U.S. Northern District bankruptcy court, 2010; founder, Law Office of Charles Novack, Oakland, 2005-10; shareholder, associate, Kornfield, Paul & Nyberg, 1994-2005; law clerk for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Randall J. Newsome, 1991-93
Law School: UC Hastings Law, 1983
Career Highlights: Reappointed May 2024, served as chief bankruptcy judge 2019-2022, appointed to U.S. Northern District bankruptcy court, 2010; founder, Law Office of Charles Novack, Oakland, 2005-10; shareholder, associate, Kornfield, Paul & Nyberg, 1994-2005; law clerk for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Randall J. Newsome, 1991-93
Law School: UC Hastings Law, 1983
By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN JOSE - Charles D. Novack's work as a bankruptcy attorney, and now a judge, started with a suggestion from his girlfriend at the beginning of his career.
He was working in general civil litigation at what was then Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP when Maureen C. Dellinger, whom he later married and with whom he has two daughters, said he should give bankruptcy law a try.
"I had done a litt... (continued)
