Hon. Peggy Hunt

Hon. Peggy M. Hunt is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Utah in Salt Lake City, appointed on March 10, 2023. Previously, she spent approximately 25 years practicing bankruptcy and receivership law, and at the time of her appointment was the co-managing shareholder of the Salt Lake City office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Judge Hunt started her career as a law clerk to Justice Robert J. Callahan of the Connecticut Supreme Court. She served two other clerkships, one for Hon. Glen E. Clark, Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Utah, and the other as one of the first law clerks for several judges on the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Tenth Circuit. Judge Hunt is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and in the American Bar Association. She was appointed to serve on the Utah Securities Commission. Judge Hunt also served as president of numerous professional and community organizations, including the Utah Bar Foundation, Women Lawyers of Utah, the Utah Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, Utah Women’s Forum, and the Board of Advisors for the Utah Museum of Natural History. She received her B.A. in economics and political science from Washington and Jefferson College and her J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she was also head notes and comments editor of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review.