TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 8, 2021

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has appointed Denise E. Barnett as the newest judge on the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Tennessee. She was selected from a field of five applicants. Barnett took the oath of office today, the bankruptcy court reports. Prior to her appointment, Barnett was a trial attorney with the Department of Justice’s United States Trustee Program. From 1997 to 2002, she was in private practice at the Florida firms of Pinkston & Pinkston and Smith Hulsey & Busey. Barnett began her career with a clerkship at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida. She earned her law degree from the William Mitchell College of Law (now known as Mitchell Hamline School of Law) in Minnesota.