Pamela Wachter McAfee

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Hon. Pamela W. McAfee</strong> is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina in Raleigh, appointed on Jan. 7, 2022. Prior to taking the bench, she was a creditors’ rights attorney, commercial litigator and mediator for 13 nonconsecutive years and served as a law clerk or career law clerk for four bankruptcy judges over 14 nonconsecutive years. Judge McAfee has spoken and written on a variety of bankruptcy topics, served on the Local Rules Committee for the bankruptcy court and the Local Civil Rules Subcommittee for the district court, and was an adjunct professor of bankruptcy law and a moot court coach at Campbell Law School. In 2016, she was recognized by the North Carolina Bar Association with the Citizen Lawyer Award for her work with HopeLine, a suicide prevention hotline, and for her mentoring activities with law students and young lawyers. Judge McAfee received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. with honors from the University of North Carolina School of Law.</p>