Hon. Nancy Hershey Lord

Hon. Nancy Hershey Lord is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge in the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, sworn in on Feb. 29, 2012, and has nearly 50 years of experience in bankruptcy law. Prior to her appointment to the bench, she was an assistant attorney general with the New York State Office of the Attorney General for more than 12 years, where she launched and headed up a separate Bankruptcy Unit in the Office’s Litigation Bureau, following a stint as section chief of the General Recoveries Unit of the Civil Recoveries Bureau. In this role, Judge Lord acted on behalf of the state, protecting its interests as creditor, regulator, watchdog and contract vendee in bankruptcy and insolvency matters. During her tenure at the Attorney General’s Office, she provided bankruptcy representation to New York State, protecting its interests as creditor, regulator, watchdog and contract vendee in the realm of bankruptcy and insolvency. She generated substantial revenue for the State arising from her active representation of state agencies and other state entities as creditors in bankruptcy cases. She also played a prominent role in several large retail bankruptcy cases, protecting consumers in connection with going out of business sales and addressing early issues of data privacy protection. Prior to joining the Attorney General’s Office, Judge Lord was a member of the Manhattan firm of Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C., where she specialized in all aspects of commercial bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and debtor-creditor bankruptcy litigation. She also served as a chapter 7 panel trustee for consumer and corporate bankruptcy estates in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., from 1992-95. Judge Lord is a graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Brooklyn Law School. She served as a legal intern to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Joseph V. Costa while in law school and upon graduation was a clerk for Bankruptcy Judge Saul Seidman in the Eastern District of New York. From 1981-1983, she was the first law clerk for Bankruptcy Judge Conrad B. Duberstein, for whom the courthouse in which she now sits is named.