Rebecca Buehler Connelly

Hon. Rebecca B. Connelly is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Virginia in Harrisonburg, appointed in July 2012. Before joining the bench, she was the Standing Chapter 13 Trustee and Chapter 12 Trustee for the Western District of Virginia, and prior to that was in private practice in Virginia and in Washington, D.C. Judge Connelly is chair of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure. As a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, she formerly chaired the NCBJ Federal Rules Advisory Committee. Judge Connelly is an adjunct professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law (teaching bankruptcy). She also is a conferee in the National Bankruptcy Conference and a frequent speaker for Virginia CLE, an author of two chapters of Bankruptcy Practice in Virginia (2004, reprinted 2008, and revised and reprinted 2016), and an active member of ABI since 1994. Judge Connelly has served as a contributing editor and a features author for the ABI Journal, and she has been a member of ABI’s Consumer Bankruptcy Committee, as well as a speaker at its Annual Spring Meeting, Winter Leadership Conference, and regional conferences, including Views from the Bench. She also serves on the advisory board and volunteers for Credit Abuse Resistance Education. Judge Connelly formerly served on the board and as a volunteer for Rockbridge Area Hospice. She received her B.A. in 1985 from the University of Maryland and her J.D. in 1988 from Washington & Lee University School of Law.