Judge Cecelia G. Morris was appointed Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York in July 2000. Prior to her appointment, she served as Clerk of Court for the Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York from December 1988. Judge Morris also served as Clerk of Court for the Bankruptcy Court in the Middle District of Georgia from February 1986 until moving to New York.
Before her career with the court, Judge Morris had a private law practice in Macon, Georgia from May 1981 until February 1986. She served as an Assistant District Attorney, as the Administrator of the Civil Division Child Support Recover Unit, Griffin Judicial Circuit in Griffin, Georgia from September 1979 until May 1981.
Judge Morris also had a private law practice in Griffin Georgia from October 1977 until January 1978 and served as a law clerk at Seay Sims & Park (now Bolton & Park) in Griffin, Georgia in 1976.
Judge Morris has participated as a trainer in many Mediation/Arbitration programs sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center; the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; the National Association of Security Dealer Regulation and Bankruptcy Court; Endispute Inc. and the Center for Public Resources, Inc. She has successfully mediated many disputes in some of the most prominent cases pending before the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Judge Morris is an active participant in many bar outreach programs and has been honored to be the keynote speaker at several events; including the Federal Judicial Center's Clerk of Court and Chief Deputies Conference; the Weil Gotshal and Manges’ "Women@Weil" and takes much pride in being invited to be the keynote speaker at Chillicothe High School's 2005 commencement ceremony in Chillicothe, Texas.
Judge Morris received a B.S. from West Texas State University in 1968 and a J.D. from John Marshall Law School in 1977.
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•Petition and Schedules: Do not file a hard copy with the Court. A hard copy MUST be filed with the Trustee appointed in the case. Failure to serve the Trustee may result in the adjournment of the 342 Meeting.
•Address of Debtor: if street and mailing address differ, enter the mailing address on ECF.
•Credit Counseling: A certificate from an approved nonprofit budget and credit counseling agency must be filed with the petition or an application for an extension of time due to exigent circumstances.
•Form B22A Means Test: File as a separate document. DO NOT file as part of the petition and schedules.
•Form B21 Statement of Social Security Number: DO NOT file as part of the petition and schedules. When it is necessary to file an amendment to the debtor’s SS#, an amended B-21 must be filed with the court. This enables the clerk’s office to amend our internal records. The amended B21 is filed in a secure file and is not available to the public. If an individual’s SS# must be included in a pleading, only the last four digits of the number should be used.
•Schedules D, E, F: Use the last four digits of financial accounts.
•Schedule I: Only the initials and age of minor children should be disclosed.
•Signature of Debtor/s: Debtor’s name must be on the filed ECF document and any amendments thereafter.
•Corporation Ownership Statement: must be filed by a debtor corporation filing a case and any corporate plaintiff filing a complaint to initiate an adversary proceeding.