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Hon. Charles N. Clevert, Jr. (Ret.)
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Hayley Prager
190 Carondelet Plaza Suite 1100 St. Louis, Missouri 63105
T: 314-326-4769
General Biography
Practice Areas
Bankruptcy
Business/Commercial
Civil Rights
Employment
Federal
Personal Injury/Torts
Securities
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
Background and Education
Hon. Charles N. Clevert, Jr. (Ret.) joins JAMS after nearly 40 years of distinguished service on the federal bench in the Eastern District of Wisconsin. While on the bench, Judge Clevert presided over a wide variety of complex litigation matters, including civil rights and discrimination cases, contract disputes, ERISA litigation, wrongful termination, sexual harassment and retaliation, torts, product liability, securities fraud and Chapter 11 business reorganizations.
Appointed at age 30, Judge Clevert became the youngest federal bankruptcy judge in the nation and Wisconsin’s first African American federal judge. He went on to serve for over 20 years on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, including three years as Chief Judge of that court.
ADR Experience and Qualifications
Clevert has extensive experience in the resolution of complex disputes in the following areas:
Bankruptcy
Business/Commercial
Civil Rights
Employment
Personal Injury / Torts
Securities
Representative Matters
Bankruptcy
Matter of Milwaukee Cheese Co., Inc., 128 B.R. 538 (1991)
Business/Commercial
Schwartz Pharma, Inc. v. Breckenridge Pharmaceutical, Inc., 388 F.Supp.2d 967 (2005)
Civil Rights
Fields v. Smith, 653 F.3d 550 (2011)
Employment
Samaritan Health Center v. Simplicity Health Care Plan, 516 F.Supp. 1195 (1997)
Personal Injury/Torts
Briggs & Stratton Corp. v. National Catholic Reporter Pub. Co., 978 F.Supp. 1195 (1997)
Securities
In re Harley-Davidson, Inc. Securities Litigation, 660 F.Supp.2d 969 (2009)
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
Completed Virtual ADR training conducted by the JAMS Institute, the training arm of JAMS.
Admissions
Wisconsin Supreme Court
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Past and Present Professional Memberships
Wisconsin Bar Association
Milwaukee Bar Association
Wisconsin Association of Minority Attorneys
Seventh Circuit Bar Association
National Bar Association, Judicial Council
American Bar Association
Past Member, House of Delegates, 2008–2017
Member, Commission on the American Jury
Past Member, Executive Committee, National Conference of Federal Trial Judges, 1992–2017
Member, Board of Directors, Justice at Stake
Past and Present Board Memberships
Thomas E. Fairchild American Inn of Court, Co-Founder; President 1993–1994
Past President, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges
National Conference of Federal Trial Judges
American Bankruptcy Institute
American Judicature Society
Local Education Agency, Inc.
Financial and Debt Counseling Service
Milwaukee Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependency, f/k/a Milwaukee Council on Alcoholism
Anvil Housing Corporation
Milwaukee Forum
Paralegal Advisory Board, Milwaukee Area Technical College
Committees and Other Professional Activities
Committee on the Budget, Judicial Conference of the United States
Commission on the Delivery of Legal Services, Wisconsin State Bar
Federal Judicial Center Lecturer
Endowment for Education, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges; Chair, 1992–1993
Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Committee, Administrative Office of U.S. Courts
Lecturer, General Practice, Debtor/Creditor Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
Speaker/Panelist (Representative List)
National Bar Association
Commercial Law League
American Bar Association, Business Bankruptcy
Western District of Wisconsin Bankruptcy Bar
American Bankruptcy Institute
National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges
Lecturer, University of Wisconsin Law School
West Texas Bar Association
Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association
Present and Past Community Activities and Memberships
Men of Tomorrow, Inc., Youth Mentor
Milwaukee Urban League
Inner City Arts Council
Glendale River Hills School District Organization Committee
Milwaukee Kickers, Team Manager/Coach
Nicolet High School Boosters Club
Nicolet High School Black Parents Group
Hands Across the Campus Human Relations Group
Salvation Army Volunteers in Probation
Milwaukee Club Frontiers International
Blood Center of Wisconsin
Selected Honors and Awards
Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Fellow, Wisconsin Law Foundation
Honoree, Milwaukee Times Black Excellence Award
Distinguished Alumnus, Davis & Elkins College
Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy
Myron L. Gordon Lifetime Achievement Award and Nathan A. Fishbach Founders Award, Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association
Background and Education
United States District Judge, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1996–2017
Chief Judge, 2009–2012
United States Bankruptcy Judge, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1977–1996
Chief Judge, 1986–1996
Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1975–1977
Special Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois, 1977
Assistant District Attorney, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, 1972–1975
Law Clerk, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Washington, DC, 1972
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1972
Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia; B.A., History and Political Science, 1969
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