Hon. Jeffery P. Hopkins

Hon. Jeffery P. Hopkins is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Ohio in Cincinnati, appointed in 1996 and reappointed in 2010. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Hon. Alan E.Norris on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, then worked as an associate with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP, specializing in complex commercial litigation. In 1990, Judge Hopkins sought appointment as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and advanced to become chief of the Civil Division for the Southern District of Ohio. During his tenure on the bankruptcy court, he has served on several commit-tees of the Judicial Conference of the United States and for bar-related and civic organizations. In 2002, the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist appointed Judge Hopkins to the Federal Judicial Center?s Education Committee for bankruptcy judges. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. appointed him to theAdvisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules, for which he chaired its Business Bankruptcy Sub committee until 2009. Judge Hopkins serves as president of the Law and Leadership, co-convener of the BLAC-CBA Round Table and board member of The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. He formerly served on ABI?s Board of Directors and the ABA?s Business Bankruptcy Committee. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy law, and he served as an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. In 2010, Judge Hopkins received the William K. Thomas Distinguished Jurist Award from his alma mater, The Ohio State College of Law.He also is a past president of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. Judge Hopkins received hisA.B. in government and legal studies and anthrosociology from Bowdoin College in 1982 and his J.D.in 1985 from The Ohio State University?s Michael E. Moritz College of Law.

Hon. Jeffery P. Hopkins