Hon. Joel D. Applebaum

Hon. Joel D. Applebaum is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan in Flint. Prior to taking the bench in May 2019, he was a member of Clark Hill PLC, practicing in the firm’s Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Practice Group. He concentrated his practice in the areas of bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, creditors’ rights, commercial and bankruptcy litigation, and general commercial law. Judge Applebaum is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association and ABI. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and has authored and lectured extensively on a wide variety of bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and general commercial law topics. Judge Applebaum received his B.A. in 1979 from Michigan State University and his J.D. in 1983 from Wayne State University Law School.