Hon. Bruce A. Harwood

Hon. Bruce A. Harwood is a retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of New Hampshire in Concord, appointed to the bench in March 2013, and currently resides in San Francisco. He also served as Chief Bankruptcy Judge prior to his retirement from the bench, and he served on the First Circuit?s Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Harwood chaired the Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Creditors? Rights Group at Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green in Manchester, N.H., representing business debtors, asset-purchasers, secured and unsecured creditors, creditors? committees, trustees in bankruptcy, and insurance and banking regulators in connection with the rehabilitation and liquidation of insolvent insurers and trust companies. He was a chapter 7 panel trustee in the District of New Hampshire and mediated insolvency-related disputes. Judge Harwood is ABI?s President-Elect. He previously served as ABI?s Secretary and Vice President-Communication, Information & Technology, as co-chair of ABI?s Commercial Fraud Committee, as program co-chair and judicial chair of ABI?s Northeast Bankruptcy Conference, and as Northeast Regional Chair of the ABI Endowment Fund?s Development Committee. He also served on ABI?s Civility Task Force. Judge Harwood is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and was consistently recognized in the bankruptcy law section of The Best Lawyers in America, in New England SuperLawyers and by Chambers USA. He received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his J.D. from Washington University School of Law.