Hon. J. Michael Deasy

J. Michael Deasy is a retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of New Hampshire in Man- chester and a member of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the First Circuit. He retired on March 10, 2013, and is currently serving as a recalled bankruptcy judge. Prior to his appointment to the bench in March 1999, Judge Deasy practiced bankruptcy, commercial and environmental law for 26 years with Hamblett & Kerrigan, P.A. (1973-87), Deasy & Dwyer P.A. (1988-98) and McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, P.A. (1998-99), and he also served in the U.S. Navy as a submarine officer (1967-70). In addition, he has traveled to Arkhangelsk, Russia, as a member of rule of law delegations for programs in commercial law, bankruptcy, legal process and local governance involving Arbitrage Court and Oblast Court judges, regional Duma members, local officials and law students. Judge Deasy is Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of ABI, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and the New Hampshire Bar Association. He received his B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his J.D. cum laude from Boston College Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was an editor of the Annual Survey of Massachusetts Law.