Shon Hastings

Hon. Shon Hastings is Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of North Dakota in Fargo, appointed in September 2011 and reappointed in February 2025. From 2014-21, she was assigned bankruptcy cases in the District of Nebraska. Judge Hastings serves as a mediator for civil cases in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota and bankruptcy cases in the Districts of Minnesota and South Dakota. She has also mediated bankruptcy cases in the Northern and Southern District of Iowa. Judge Hastings serves as the Eighth Circuit Governor on the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges’ Board of Governors. In January 2022, she was appointed to the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Eighth Circuit. She began serving as Chief Judge of the Eighth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel on Jan. 25, 2024. Judge Hastings received her undergraduate degree and J.D. from the University of North Dakota.