Hon. Lisa S. Gretchko

Hon. Lisa S. Gretchko is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan in Detroit, sworn in on April 5, 2021. Prior to her judicial appointment, she spent more than four decades as a bankruptcy/creditors? rights attorney and represented nearly every constituency in bankruptcy courts around the country, including secured creditors, unsecured creditors? committees, landlords, licensors of intellectual property, customers, suppliers, business debtors and trustees. Judge Gretchko has written and lectured extensively for various organizations on numerous bankruptcy and creditors? rights issues. From April 2018-April 2022, she served as ABI?s Vice President-Publications, as a member of ABI?s Executive Committee and Board of Directors, and as ABI?s Publications Committee chair. Judge Gretchko is a former Executive Editor of the ABI Journal and a former co-chair of the ABI?s Unsecured Trade Creditors Committee, which named her 2014 Committee Person of the Year. She also has been named in Michigan Super Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America, and she was honored as a Woman in the Law by Michigan Lawyer?s Weekly in 2011. Judge Gretchko received her B.A. with honors in 1976 from the University of Michigan, where she was elected Phi Beta Kappa, and her J.D. with honors in 1978 from the University of Detroit.

Lisa Sommers Gretchko