Judge Keith Lundin was appointed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Tennessee in 1982. He retired in June 2016. He served as a judge on the first Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Sixth Circuit from 1997-99. He is on the faculty of the Federal Judicial Center and is a Conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference. In addition to teaching as an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt Law School, he taught at the University of New Mexico, where he was the Weihofen Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in 2006, at Emory University School of Law and on numerous seminar and institute faculties. He received the Excellence in Education award from the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and the Norton Judicial Excellence Award from the American Bankruptcy Institute. He is the author of LundinOnChapter13.com and was managing editor of the Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser (Thompson/Reuters/West) from 1982 to 2024. After earning his law degree from Vanderbilt, he clerked for Chief Judge Harry Phillips of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. While in private practice, he served as standing Chapter 13 trustee for the Middle District of Tennessee. He teaches Effective Legal Writing for the Real World; Discharge and Dischargeability; and Chapter 13.