Hon. Rachel Blise
Bio
Hon. Rachel Blise is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, appointed to the bench in 2021. She also presides over cases in the Western District of Wisconsin. Before her appointment, Judge Blise was senior counsel at Foley & Lardner LLP, where she represented financial institutions, commercial mortgage lenders and loan servicers, and other creditors in collection, foreclosure, receivership proceedings, bankruptcy cases and lender-liability cases. She also represented a wide variety of clients in other complex commercial litigation. Judge Blise received her Bachelor’s degree from Carthage College and her J.D. summa cum laude from Marquette University Law School. After law school, she clerked for the Hon. Carolyn Dineen King of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.