[E]very client comments that with Sage at the helm, they know it will get handled properly the first time with the highest degree of professionalism and competence…. There is not always one way to do something, or one way to do it right, but Sage’s common-sense approach to resolution of issues is exactly what we look for in the people we want in leadership roles in our profession.
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Hon. Sage M. Sigler</strong> is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta, appointed in March 2018. She succeeded Hon. Mary Grace Diehl, for whom she clerked after graduating from law school. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Sigler was a partner in Alston & Bird LLP’s Bankruptcy Group. She is an active member of ABI’s Board of Directors, NCBJ, IWIRC, TMA and the Bankruptcy Section of the Atlanta Bar Association, and she has been a volunteer presenter for the Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) program. Judge Sigler was an honoree in ABI’s inaugural class of “40 Under 40” in 2017, and she served on the program’s steering committee from 2022-23, as well as on the publications committee in 2023 as an ABI Board member, and as the judicial chair for ABI’s Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop in 2024. She received her B.A. in political science from the University of Florida in 2001 and her J.D. in 2006 from Emory University School of Law, where she was the executive symposium editor of the <em>Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal</em>.</p>
Education
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Bachelor of Arts, University of Florida
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Juris Doctor, Emory University School of Law