Hon. Pamela Pepper

Pamela Pepper is a U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, appointed by President Obama in 2014. Previously, she served as a bankruptcy judge for the district, initially appointed on July 5, 2005, and named chief judge on July 1, 2010. Prior to her appointment, she was with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago and moved to the Milwaukee U.S. Attorney's Of- fice in 1994. Judge Pepper was previously a solo criminal defense practitioner, representing clients in federal trial courts and in the Seventh Circuit, as well as in Wisconsin state court. She holds a graduate certificate in dispute resolution from Marquette University and has taught legal writing and law prac- tice management at Marquette Law School. Judge Pepper is a member of ABI and formerly served as education director and chair of its Consumer Bankruptcy Committee, and currently serves on its Board of Directors and Education Committee. She belongs to the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, having served a term as the Seventh Circuit representative on the Board of Governors and a term as secretary from 2013-14. She also has served on the National Conference Education Committee and chaired that committee for the 2014 conference in Chicago. Judge Pepper completed two terms as an associate editor of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. She has served on the Human Resources Ad- visory Council of the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts and currently serves on the OSCAR working group and the Judicial Data Working Group for the Administrative Office. She is also a member of the Bankruptcy Rules Committee of the Judicial Conference of the U.S. Judge Pepper frequently speaks at Federal Judicial Center programs, and is a former member of the Center's Bankruptcy Judges' Educa- tion Advisory Group. She also speaks at bar associations across the country on topics such as the rules of evidence in bankruptcy, the intersection of criminal and bankruptcy law, and litigation skills. Judge Pepper received her undergraduate degree in theater from Northwestern University and her J.D. from Cornell Law School, where she was a notes editor on the Cornell Law Review and a teaching assistant.

Hon. Pamela Pepper