Whitman L. Holt

Hon. Whitman L. Holt is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Washington in Yakima, appointed on Nov. 1, 2019. Before taking the bench, he was a partner with Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP in Los Angeles, where his bankruptcy practice included briefing multiple matters before the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Holt is a co-author of Bankruptcy and the Supreme Court: 1801-2014(West Academic 2015) and of a series of commentaries about bankruptcy and the Supreme Court for the LexisNexis Emerging Issues Analysis project. He also is a contributing author for the Collier onBankruptcy treatise and related standalone publications. Since 2015, Judge Holt has been a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference. In 2017, he was included in the American Bankruptcy Institute’s inaugural list of the top “40 Under 40” bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring professionals from around the world. Judge Holt received his undergraduate degree from Bates College and his J.D. fromHarvard Law School.