Julia Smith Gibbons is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Wayne State University Law School is the law school of Wayne State University in Detroit. Wayne Law is located in Midtown, Detroit's Cultural Center. Founded in 1927, the law school offers juris doctor (J.D.), master of laws (LL.M.), online master of studies in law, and minors in law degree programs.
Michael Roland Murphy is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Marvin E. Aspen is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Business Courts, sometimes referred to as Commercial Courts, are trial courts that primarily or exclusively adjudicate internal business disputes and/or commercial litigation between businesses, heard before specialist judges assigned to these courts. Commercial Courts outside the United States may have broader or narrower jurisdiction than state trial level business and commercial courts within the United States, for example patent or admiralty jurisdiction; and jurisdiction may vary between countries.
Loretta Hogan Rush is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Indiana Supreme Court since 2012 and as the chief justice since 2014.
Christopher C. Wilkes is the former chief judge for West Virginia's largest judicial circuit, the 23rd Judicial Circuit, encompassing Morgan, Jefferson, and Berkeley counties. Wilkes was first elected to the court in 1992 and has served on the bench since 1993. He has been reelected four times since, most recently in 2016. On August 17, 2018, he announced his candidacy for the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Division 1. He was not elected, placing third among ten candidates.
Hala Yalda Jarbou is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. She is the first Chaldean federal judge.
Shalina Deborah Kumar is an American attorney from Michigan who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Albert J. Matricciani, Jr. is a retired United States judge in the state of Maryland, who served both at the trial and appellate levels of Maryland's state court system. As a trial level judge, Matricianni was in charge of the Baltimore Circuit Court's Family Law Division for five years, and was later instrumental in creating the statewide Business and Technology Case Management Program. He was President of the Baltimore City Bar Association, and served in leadership in numerous entities and organizations of a legal or charitable nature.
Brent Thomas Adams was a United States judge in Nevada's Second Judicial District, located in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada. He served for 25 years, eventually becoming Chief Judge of that court. He innovated with the creation and development of a drug court, created a forum for early case resolution, created and chaired a Criminal Justice Advisory Committee, served as the District Court's first business court judge and continuing to serve as a business court judge until his retirement over 10 years later.
Heather A. Welch is a United States judge on the Marion County, Indiana Superior Court, located in Indianapolis, Indiana. She was instrumental in developing Indiana's Commercial Courts, on which she served as one of its initial judges until her retirement. She has served as a judicial leader in Indiana and nationally, among other things being the incoming chair of the American Bar Association's Judicial Division in 2024, and has received numerous awards for her judicial service.
Christopher Paul Yates is an American judge in the state of Michigan. He has served as both a trial level and appellate judge. He was one of Michigan's first business court judges, serving in that role for ten years, and later developing a national presence and influence as a business court judge. Most recently, he was assigned to the specialized Michigan Court of Claims, to deal with litigation involving governmental entities. He served in two prestigious judicial clerkships, has held positions of significance outside of his judgeships, and has received numerous awards as a judge.
Gail A. Andler is a retired American judge who served in the Orange County, California Superior Court for over 22 years. She was assigned to its specialized complex civil litigation program for ten years, from 2007 until her retirement. She has been a leader in the national community of specialized business court judges, and has been acknowledged with numerous awards for her work as a trial judge. Andler has been recognized for her service to at-risk children and youth.
Timothy Sean Driscoll is an American judge, serving as a justice in the trial level Supreme Court of Nassau County, New York. He has served in that court's specialized Commercial Division from 2009 to the present. He is a leader among New York judges in the Commercial Division, and in the national community of specialized business court judges. Before becoming a judge, he served in the executive branch of county government, served as both a federal and local prosecutor in criminal matters, and held a prestigious judicial clerkship in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Elizabeth Hazlitt Emerson is a retired American judge who served on the New York Supreme Court of Suffolk County for 28 years, 21 of those years presiding in that court's Commercial Division, a specialized business court. She was instrumental in establishing the Suffolk County Commercial Division, and has played an important part in developing New York's Commercial Division statewide. She worked at prestigious New York law firms before being elected to the bench for two 14-year terms, and has been recognized and honored for her work as a judge and judicial administrator.
Gill S. Freeman is a retired American judge who served for nearly 20 years in the Circuit Court of Miami-Dade County, Florida. She is the recipient of numerous awards as a judge, and has held a wide range of significant leadership positions, in addition to serving as a judge. She was the first judge assigned to Miami's newly established business court in 2007, and co-chairs a bar association task force on making recommendations about implementing business courts statewide in Florida.
Lisa Sharon Walsh is an American judge, serving on the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court in Miami-Dade County, Florida since 2011. She has been Administrative Judge of that court's Appellate Division, a judge of its International Commercial Arbitration Court since 2017, and a business court judge in its Complex Business Litigation Division since 2023. She has received numerous awards as a judge, has held significant leadership positions, and has provided judicial education programming to other judges. In 2024, Walsh was the highest rated judge in the Miami-Dade Bar's Judicial Poll.
