Stephen G. Morrell

Stephen G. Morrell is an assistant U.S. Trustee with the Office of the U.S. Trustee for Region 1 in Portland, Maine, which supervises the administration of bankruptcy cases in the federal districts created for Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Prior to that, he concentrated his private practice in business planning, bankruptcy and commercial litigation for 28 years. Mr. Morrell chaired the Bankruptcy section of the Maine State Bar Association and chaired panels of the Maine Board of Bar Overseers’ Fee Arbitration and Grievance Commissions. He withdrew from private practice in 2006 to accept an appointment as Assistant U.S. Trustee, responsible for the administrative oversight of bankruptcy cases, supervision of trustees and legal representation of the U.S. Trustee in Maine. Mr. Morrell is a member of the Local Rules Advisory Committee for the Maine Bankruptcy Court and ABI. He received his B.A. in government and legal studies from Bowdoin College in 1975 and his J.D. in 1978 from the University of Maine Law School.