Steven Jay Katzman is currently the United States Trustee for Region 15, and the acting United States Trustee for Region 16.

Immediately before his appointment as U.S. Trustee, Mr. Katzman was senior insolvency and federal litigation counsel for the Orange County, Calif., law firm of Albert, Weiland & Golden LLP. He represented secured and unsecured creditors, debtors, creditors' committees, and trustees in all aspects of complex bankruptcy cases and proceedings and federal commercial litigation.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Katzman served for eight years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney. From 1991 through 1996 he prosecuted bankruptcy fraud and related crimes, including mail fraud, wire fraud, and bank fraud, in Los Angeles for the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. From 1996 through 1999, he established and managed a new office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, in Youngstown. Prior to his service with the U.S. Attorneys' offices, he was an associate with the Newport Beach, Calif., office of Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, and a law clerk for Bankruptcy Judge John E. Ryan in the Central District of California.

Mr. Katzman received his law degree in 1987 from the University of California School of Law at Davis and his undergraduate degree in 1984 from the University of California at Santa Cruz.