Hon. Mary Ann Whipple

Hon. Mary Ann Whipple is Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Ohio inToledo, appointed as bankruptcy judge in 2001 and serving her second term. She also served a term on the Sixth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. Before her appointment as a bankruptcy judge, she practiced law for 20 years as a commercial, bankruptcy and employment litigator with Fuller &Henry Ltd. in Toledo. Judge Whipple is admitted to practice in Ohio and Michigan and before theU.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Ohio and the Eastern District of Michigan. In addition, she taught creditor/debtor law as a part-time faculty member at the University of Toledo College of Law for 20 years.Judge Whipple received the 2008 Toledo Bar Association Community Service Award and the Toledo Women?s Bar Association?s Arabella Babb Mansfield Award in 2016, and is also a master and past president of The Morrison R. Waite Chapter of the American Inns of Court Foundation. She received her A.B. in Russian studies from the University of Michigan in 1977 and her J.D. fromStanford Law School in 1981.

Hon. Mary Ann Whipple