Jessica Hopton Youngberg

Jessica Hopton Youngberg is a law clerk at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston. Before joining the court in late 2019, she worked as a senior staff attorney at VeteransLegal Services, a nonprofit legal aid organization in Boston, where she helped low-income veterans with a broad range of civil legal matters, including those related to public and veterans benefits, consumer debt and bankruptcy, family law, housing and military records. Ms. Youngberg has a long history of public service, including working for the American Red Cross’s Service to the Armed Forces Division while living in Korea during her husband’s military service before she attended law school. While in law school, she interned with Veterans Legal Services, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, a federal judge in the Western District of Oklahoma and a bankruptcy judge in the District of Massachusetts. She also served as a teaching assistant, research assistant and lead articles editor for the Journal of Health and Biomedical Law. Ms. Youngberg co-chaired the Boston Bar Association’s Active DutyMilitary & Veterans Forum for three years and has served as a co-chair of its Financial Literacy Committee, which has overseen a financial literacy program for high school students for the last two years.She also is a member of the Pro Bono Committee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts and a member of ABI’s Service members and Veterans Affairs Task Force. Ms. Youngberg received her B.S. in 2005 from Middle Tennessee State University and her J.D. summa cum laude fromSuffolk University Law School in 2013, where she was lead articles editor of the Journal of Health &Biomedical Law.