Hon. Brendan Linehan Shannon

Bio

Hon. Brendan Linehan Shannon is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Delaware in Wilmington, appointed in 2006 and reappointed on March 13, 2020. He manages a full chapter 11 docket and also handles all chapter 13 consumer bankruptcy cases filed in Delaware. He served as Chief Judge from 2014-18. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Shannon was a partner with Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP in Wilmington, Del., where he primarily represented corporate debtors and official committees in chapter 11 cases. He was appointed by Chief Justice Roberts to serve on the Judicial Conference Committee for the Administration of the Bankruptcy System in 2015; his term ended in 2022. In 2023, Chief Justice Roberts appointed Judge Shannon to the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management. He also serves as chair of the Third Circuit Judicial Council Committee on Bankruptcy. Judge Shannon has served on intercircuit assignment to the District of Puerto Rico since April 2022, when he was appointed the judicial mediator for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Company’s Title III insolvency proceedings. He is an adjunct professor in the Bankruptcy L.L.M. Program at St. John’s University School of Law in New York, and previously taught at Widener School of Law in Delaware. Judge Shannon serves on the board of editors of Collier on Bankruptcy (16th ed.) and is a contributing author for Collier Forms. He also serves on the advisory board for the ABI Law Review. Judge Shannon speaks frequently at bar education programs and judicial conferences, and he regularly serves as a faculty member in training programs for new chief judges organized by the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts. In 2011, he was selected to serve as a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the Delaware State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, ABI and the Rodney Inns of Court. Judge Shannon received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his J.D. from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary.