Beth A. Buchanan

Hon. Beth A. Buchanan is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Ohio in Cincinnati, appointed on May 10, 2011. Prior to her appointment, she was a member of Frost Brown Todd LLC in its Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group, where she practiced exclusively in the areas of bankruptcy and insolvency law, representing debtors, creditors’ committees, secured lenders and unsecured creditors in numerous complex chapter 7, 11 and 15 bankruptcy proceedings. Prior to obtaining her law degree, Judge Buchanan worked in banking for over eight years with two major financial institutions. She is a member of ABI, the Cincinnati Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association’s Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Chapter, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and the Thomas F. Waldron American Bankruptcy Law Forum, and she is the chairperson of the Local Bankruptcy Rules Standing Committee for the Southern District of Ohio. She also served on the Sixth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel from 2018-20. Judge Buchanan received her B.S.B.A. in 1986 from The Ohio State University and her J.D. summa cum laude in 1997 from the University of Dayton School of Law.