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 started 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 and is currently serving her third term. Judge Bowman oversees the Court's re-entry program and participates on several court governance committees.
Judge Bowman is a Fellow of the Cincinnati Academy of Leadership for Lawyers and currently serves on its Steering Committee. She is a past president of both the Ohio Women's Bar Association and the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky John W. Peck Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, while still serving on the Chapter Board. Judge Bowman also currently serves as a Director on the Board of the Federal Bar Association and is a Federal Bar Foundation Fellow. She is also a past Sixth Circuit Director and member of the Federal Magistrate Judges Association, as well as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Potter Stewart American Inn of Court, and a member of the Cincinnati Bar Association.