Tyson A. Crist

Hon. Tyson A. Crist is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Ohio in Dayton, appointed on June 3, 2025. Previously, he had clerked for Hon. J. Rich Leonard in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, then joined the creditors’ rights, corporate trust, and business restructuring group of Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn Co., LPA in 2000. Judge Crist had been a partner of the firm since 2008, which later merged with Ice Miller LLP. During his time at the firm, he litigated a variety of matters in bankruptcy and state courts, and handled appeals to the Sixth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel and Court of Appeals. Judge Crist primarily represented clients in bankruptcies and state court receiverships, protecting and restructuring financial interests, and enforcing debtor/creditor rights. His clients included unsecured creditors’ committees, liquidation and indenture trustees, governmental pension plans, financial institutions, and other creditors and business debtors. Judge Crist was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America for 18 years in the areas of bankruptcy and debtor/creditor rights, and for bankruptcy litigation. He frequently wrote articles and book chapters for a variety of publications, including an in-depth article on Stern v. Marshall in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, and he often spoke at legal education programs on the topics of bankruptcy, receivership and debtor/creditor law. Through his involvement with the Ohio State Bar Association as chair of the Banking, Commercial & Bankruptcy Law Committee, he testified before committees of both the Ohio House of Representatives and Senate on revisions to Ohio’s foreclosure and receivership statutes, which he helped to draft, and other debtor/creditor laws. As an inaugural three-year member of the Chapter 11 Subcommittee of the Attorney Advisory Committee to the Court, Judge Crist worked on the Procedures for Complex Chapter 11 Cases. He also served the federal legal community for over seven years as a member of the board of trustees for the Columbus Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, serving as Membership chair, vice president/president-elect, president and immediate past president. Judge Crist organized, hosted and moderated the annual Demystifying Federal Court program. He is a longtime member of the Bankruptcy Law Committee of the Columbus Bar Association and ABI. Recently, he has become an active member of the Thomas F. Waldron American Bankruptcy Law Forum. Judge Crist received his B.A. in 1996 from The College of Wooster and his J.D. in 1999 from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.