Hon. Barry S. Schermer

Hon. Barry S. Schermer is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri in St. Louis,Cape Girardeau and Hannibal, Mo., appointed in 1986 and reappointed in 2000 and 2014. He also serves as a judge on the Eighth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, appointed in 1996 and reappointed to seven year terms in 2003, 2010 and 2017. Judge Schermer is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and authored an article on negative amortization that was published in the Bankruptcy Developments Journal. He also authored a Washington University Law Quarterly article examining the effect of community interests in bankruptcy. Judge Schermer graduated from Washington University School ofLaw and was an adjunct professor of law there for more than 25 years.