Kimberly A. Bacher
How Judge Bacher rules, drawn from 4 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
About Judge Bacher
Kimberly A. Bacher became Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of New Hampshire in 2024. Before joining the bench, she practiced bankruptcy law for nearly twenty years, including service as a trial attorney with the United States Trustee Program.
Judge Bacher's practices and standing orders
The court's website lists no individual practices or standing orders of Judge Bacher's own (checked October 11, 2026), so the court's local rules and general orders are the place to look (court page ↗).
Standing orders for every case in this court
Orders the court applies to all of its cases, whichever judge has them, as published on the court's website (checked October 11, 2026).
How Judge Bacher decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Contemporaneous documents carried more weight than uncorroborated testimony about how loan proceeds were spent.
“given zero corroborating documentary evidence – no receipts, no invoices, no bills, no statements – this Court finds the Defendants’ testimony not credible.”
In In re Phoenix Swimming, Bacher dismissed an involuntary bankruptcy petition after trial because she found the alleged debtor was generally paying its debts as they became due.
“the Court concludes that the Alleged Debtor is generally paying its debts as they become due, and for that reason, will dismiss the Involuntary Petition.”
Procedural preferences
A two-party collection dispute with available state-law remedies was better handled in state court than through a forced Chapter 11 case.
“In the Court’s view, the State Court is a more appropriate forum to deal with issues concerning payment of the Judgment and the Fee Award, in the absence of other creditor issues.”
Cautions
Repeated filings combined with false sworn disclosures supported two-year in rem stay relief.
“The Court does not find that these are simple mistakes.”
A substantial damages request failed where the plaintiffs did not first prove a violation of either bankruptcy stay.
“Because this Court concludes that a violation of the automatic stay or codebtor stay did not occur, the Plaintiffs are not entitled to damages.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Based upon the uncontroverted allegations in the Motion and on the Court’s own review of its docket, the request for in rem relief with respect to the Property under 11 U.S.C. § 362(d)(4)(B) is GRANTED.”
“The Court will not award fees, costs, or damages.”
After trial, the court entered judgment for the lender and excepted the debt from discharge under section 523(a)(2)(A).
After trial, the court entered judgment for the defendants on both the automatic-stay and codebtor-stay claims.
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Six of the ten sampled matters were recorded as terminated. The sample's closed matters had a median recorded duration of 113.5 days. Entry attachments were unavailable, and generic labels were not treated as substantive rulings.
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