Appointed for a fourteen year term of office pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 152 on September 16, 1987; reappointed by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 2001. Term expires 2015. Served as Chief Bankruptcy Judge from 2002-2007.

University of Chicago, B.A., cum laude, 1972; University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1975

Jenner & Block, Partner and member of the Executive Committee

National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, Secretary; American Bankruptcy Institute, Secretary; Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules; American College of Bankruptcy, fellow; National Bankruptcy Conference

Means Testing in the New §707(b), 79 Am. Bankr. L. J. 231 (2005). Judge Wedoff is the author of the chapter on professional employment in Queenan, Hendel and Hillinger, Chapter 11 Theory and Practice (LRP Publications, 1994)

Wife: Peggy; Children: John, Carl, Alice, and Ernest