J. Kate Stickles

Hon. J. Kate Stickles is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Delaware in Wilmington, appointed on April 6, 2021. Previously, she was member of Cole Schotz P.C.’s Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring Department in its Wilmington, Del., office and practiced in the areas of corporate bankruptcy, insolvency and creditors’ rights, having represented debtors, official committees, creditors, examiners and trustees in chapter 11 cases. Judge Stickles has been named in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business since 2010 and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America and in Delaware Super Lawyers in the area of Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights Law. She served as counsel to chapter 11 debtors in a variety of industries, including manufacturing and distribution, telecommunications, health care and media, in some of Delaware’s most significant bankruptcy cases. Judge Stickles has published in, and served as a contributing editor for, the ABI Journal, and has also published in The Americas Restructuring and Insolvency Guide, the ABI Bankruptcy Litigation Committee eNewsletter and the ABI Commercial Fraud Committee eNewsletter. She also is active in the Bankruptcy Section of the Delaware State Bar Association, having served as the Section’s chair (2010-11), vice chair Commercial Bankruptcy (2009-10) and secretary (2008-09). Judge Stickles is a member of the Delaware Views from the Bench Advisory Board and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), for which she served as director-at-large from 2010-11. She received her B.A. in political science and communications from Western Maryland College and her J.D. from Temple University School of Law.