OFFICE ADDRESS
Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse, Room 706
100 East Fifth Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone: (513) 564-7680
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Magistrate Judge Stephanie K. Bowman received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997, a J.D. from DePaul University, College of Law in 2000, and a LLM in Judicial Studies from Duke University, School of Law in 2020. She spent the first six years of her legal career in private practice focusing on immigration, estate planning, real estate, business transactions and litigation. In 2006 she transitioned to the court to clerk for the Honorable Michael R. Barrett, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio. Judge Bowman was appointed a United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Ohio on October 29, 2010. She was appointed Chief Magistrate Judge of the District beginning January 1, 2025.
Judge Bowman is a Fellow of the Cincinnati Academy of Leadership for Lawyers and currently serves as the Chair of its Steering Committee. She is a past president and member of both the Ohio Women's Bar Association and the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky John W. Peck Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Judge Bowman also currently serves as a member of the National Council for the Federal Bar Association, a past Sixth Circuit Director and member of the Federal Magistrate Judges Association, a member of the Executive Committee of the Potter Stewart American Inn of Court, and a member of the Cincinnati Bar Association.