From the Law Blog, the background of Chrysler bankruptcy judge Arthur Gonzalez:
From 1969 to 1982, he taught math in a New York City elementary school. Then, after getting a law degree from Fordham Law School at night, he was a staff attorney for the Internal Revenue Service in New York and spent three years in private practice.
In 1991, he joined the U.S. Trustee’s office, an arm of the Justice Department that monitors bankruptcy proceedings. He was appointed a federal bankruptcy judge In 1995.
Judge Gonzalez handled the Enron and Worldcom bankruptcies.