Henry W. Van Eck

Judge Van Eck earned his Bachelor of Science in political science from Susquehanna University in 1995 and is a 1998 cum laude graduate of Widener University Commonwealth Law School.^[3]

After graduating law school he joined the law firm of Cummingham and Chernicoff, P.C. where he began practicing bankruptcy law. Van Eck then cofounded the law firm of Van Eck & Van Eck, P.C. In 2011, he became a shareholder with Mette, Evans & Woodside law firm in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 2016, Van Eck was recommended for a federal bankruptcy judgeship by Judicial Council for the Third Circuit.^[4] He was appointed to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on April 6, 2017.^[5] He became chief judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in December 2019.^[6] His term will expire on April 5, 2031.^[7]

Judge Van Eck is a member of the American, Pennsylvania, and Dauphin County Bar Associations, the American Bankruptcy Institute and the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges.^[8]