Hon. Kimberly Bacher Appointed to the District of New Hampshire

Kimberly A. Bacher was appointed on August 12, 2024, to serve as a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of New Hampshire filling the vacancy created by Chief Judge Bruce A. Harwood’s retirement on August 11, 2024. Kimberly has been practicing bankruptcy law for the entirety of her nearly twenty-year legal career. For the past twelve years, she has been a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Trustee’s Office, first serving in Chicago, Illinois, before transferring to Concord, New Hampshire. For the past several years, in addition to her New Hampshire caseload, Kimberly has also received assignments from the Chicago U.S. Trustee’s Office. She also serves as the U.S. Trustee’s Appellate Coordinator for the Northern District of Illinois and the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin and is a member of the U.S. Trustee Criminal Enforcement Working Group.

A first generation college graduate, Kimberly received a B.A. from the University of Vermont in 2001 and her J.D., cum laude, from American University Washington College of Law in 2005. Following law school, she completed a two-year clerkship with the Jack B. Schmetterer of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois. After her clerkship, she practiced bankruptcy law in Chicago, Illinois, at Goldberg Kohn from 2007 to 2009, and at Shaw Fishman Glantz & Towbin LLC from 2009 to 2012. Kimberly is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association, served on the board of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation from 2011 to 2013 and was a member of the Bankruptcy Court Liaison Committee for the Northern District of Illinois from 2013 to 2017, and of the Public Service Committee of the New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association in 2023. Outside of the legal community, she is a volunteer with the New Hampshire Correctional Facility for Women, where she helps incarcerated women prepare to reintegrate into the community. In 2018, Kimberly coordinated the creation of the Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) chapter in New Hampshire and has since taught and organized dozens of presentations to young adults about financial management and the consequences of credit abuse. In her free time, Kimberly likes to hike the White Mountains and play golf.