U.S. Bankruptcy Judge,
Western District of Texas, (1987-2012)

Judge Clark is a 1980 honors graduate of the University of Houston Law Center, where he also served as an editor on the Houston Law Review. He was appointed to the bankruptcy bench by the Fifth Circuit in 1987. Before becoming a judge, he was a partner with Cox & Smith in San Antonio, Texas – concentrating on bankruptcy and creditors’ rights and representing institutional lenders, committees, and debtors during the explosion of bankruptcy cases in Texas in the early and mid-1980s. Prior to attending law school, the Judge received a Master of Divinity degree from Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio, and served the American Lutheran Church in specialized ministries. He is a frequent speaker at bankruptcy seminars and annually teaches American constitutional law and a bankruptcy review course to foreign students in Salzburg, Austria, as part of the International Law program of McGeorge School of Law.