About the Authors

The Honorable Joan N. Feeney is a U.S. bankruptcy judge for the District of Massachusetts. She began her term as judge in 1992, served as Chief Judge from 2002 to 2006, and also sits as a member of the First Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, a tribunal for appeals from bankruptcy courts. Judge Feeney is a member of the International Judicial Relations Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States. She is a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and will serve as its president commencing in 2012. Judge Feeney is also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Bankruptcy Institute and is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. She co-chairs the M. Ellen Carpenter Financial Literacy Project, a joint venture of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts and the Boston Bar Association, which teaches high school students about personal finance. Additionally, Judge Feeney coauthors the Bankruptcy Law Manual, a two-volume treatise on bankruptcy law published by West. In 2005, Judge Feeney received the Boston Bar Association's prestigious Haskell Cohn Award for Distinguished Judicial Service. Prior to her appointment as judge, Judge Feeney was an associate and partner in the Boston law firm Hanify & King, P.C. and Career Law Clerk to Hon. James N. Gabriel, U.S. bankruptcy judge for the District of Massachusetts. Judge Feeney is a graduate of Connecticut College and Suffolk University Law School. A frequent panelist ...

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