Suzanne Bauknight

Hon. Suzanne H. Bauknight is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee in Knoxville, appointed on Nov. 10, 2014. She previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Civil Division Chief, representing federal agencies in a variety of matters including bankruptcy and debt collection. During her term as chair of the DOJ’s Civil Chiefs Working Group, she was appointed to the Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. Following law school, Judge Bauknight clerked for South Carolina Court of Appeals Judge C. Tolbert Goolsby, Jr., then was an associate at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, where she prac- ticed in commercial and employment litigation. She is a member of the Tennessee, South Carolina and Knoxville Bar Associations, and served as a member of the KBA Board of Governors and as co-chair of the Government and Public Service Sector Lawyers’ Section. She also is an Emeritus Master of the Bench and past president of the Hamilton Burnett Chapter of the American Inns of Court. Judge Bauknight teaches as an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law and the Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law, and she is an associate editor of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. She received her B.A. with honors and magna cum laude in international studies from the South Carolina Honors College at the University of South Carolina, and her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where she attended as a Carolina Legal Scholar.