The Hon.

M.

Kendra

Klump

M. Kendra Klump presently serves as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Indiana. 

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Judge Klump is a 2004 graduate of Georgetown University, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and mathematics. From August 2004 to August 2005, she served as a Brookhaven National Laboratory Fellow with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria. Judge Klump then joined the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C. as a general scientist.

In May 2008, Judge Klump enrolled at the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a Darrow Scholar, recipient of the Rakow Scholarship, and earned certificates of merit for performance in Administrative Law and Securities Regulation. She was a contributing editor on the Michigan Law Review and graduated magna cum laude in December 2010.

Following law school, Judge Klump served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judith W. Rogers at the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In September 2012, Judge Klump took a position as an Assistant United States Attorney in Cleveland, Ohio, where she remained until January 2017. At that time, Judge Klump became an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. In February 2022, she became the Chief of the Southern District of Indiana's Drug Trafficking Unit, supervising the practice of six Assistant United States Attorneys while maintaining a docket of complex drug and money laundering investigations. She remained in that position until joining the federal bench in January 2023.