Beth E. Hanan

Hon. Beth E. Hanan is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and Green Bay, appointed in May 2015. Previously, she was an appellate lawyer and litigator in Wisconsin, and served several terms as managing member of a trial practice boutique, Gass Weber Mullins. Judge Hanan was chair of the Wisconsin Judicial Council and president of the Milwaukee Bar Association, and she remains a Fellow in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Since joining the bench, she has been the judicial co-chair of ABI’s annual Wedoff Consumer Conference (in 2020 renamed the Consumer Practice Extravaganza) and has served as the bankruptcy representative to the Seventh Circuit Judicial Council (2019-21). She also chaired the Public Outreach committee of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ) from 2020-22 and is a member of NCBJ’s Ethics and International Judicial Relations committees. Judge Hanan received her undergraduate degree from Marquette University and her J.D. in 1996 from the University of Wisconsin Law School.