Hon. Meredith S. Grabill

Hon. Meredith S. Grabill is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans. Prior to taking the bench in September 2019, she practiced primarily in the areas of bankruptcy, commercial, and oil and gas litigation, serving on bankruptcy teams representing publicly traded, closely held, and individual chapter 11 debtors; official unsecured creditors’ committees; and corporate creditors. Outside of bankruptcy court, Judge Grabill has represented large and multinational corporations in antitrust proceedings, labor and contract disputes, and insurance and reinsurance disputes. She previously clerked for Hon. Edith Brown Clement in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Hon. Martin L.C. Feldman in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and Hon. Martin Glenn in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Grabill received her B.A. from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., and her J.D. from Tulane Law School, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Tulane Law Review.