Tiiara N.A. Patton

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Hon. Tiiara N.A. Patton</strong> is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Ohio in Youngstown, appointed in 2020. She previously served with the Office of the U.S. Trustee as a trial attorney in Cleveland and Wilmington, Del. Before joining the Office of the U.S. Trustee, Judge Patton worked as an attorney in private practice at Calfee, Halter &amp; Griswold LLP in Cleveland with a practice focused on bankruptcy, and at LeBeouf, Lamb, Greene and MacRae LLP in New York, with a practice focused on business restructuring. She also clerked for Hon. Burrell Ives Humphreys (ret.) of the New Jersey Superior Court in Passaic County, and Judges Novalyn L. Winfield (ret.), Donald H. Steckroth (ret.) and Morris Stern of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey, Hon. Cornelius Blackshear (ret.) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, and Hon. Randolph Baxter (ret.) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Judge Patton is a member of ABI and the Mahoning County Bar Association, The Nathaniel R. Jones American Inn of Court, and the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges’s (NCBJ’s) Public Outreach and The Honorable Cornelius Blackshear NCBJ Presidential Fellowship Committees, and she is a lifetime member of the Central State University Alumni Association. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Central State University and her J.D. from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.</p>