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Philip H. Brandt

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Philip H. Brandt

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Prior offices
United States Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of California

United States Bankruptcy Court Western District of Washington

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Philip H. Brandt was a federal bankruptcy judge on the United States bankruptcy court, Western District of Washington. Judge Brandt served actively on the court from October 11, 1991, to January of 2010. He began serving as a recalled judge to that court after leaving active status. Judge Brandt also began serving as a recalled judge on the United States bankruptcy court, Eastern District of California.[1][2][3]

Education and early life

Brandt was born in Juneau, Alaska, and raised in Lynden, Washington. Judge Brandt received his B.A. in economics from Harvard in 1966. After completing active military duty as a naval officer, he attended the University of Washington School of Law where he received his J.D. in 1972.[4][5]

Career

After law school, Brandt served as an attorney in the Department of Justice and the Federal Maritime Commission. Before his first appointment to the Western District of Washington’s U.S. Bankruptcy Court in 1991, Judge Brandt was a Deputy Prosecutor for Pierce County (Tacoma, WA). He then entered private practice with the Simonarson law firm in Lynden and Bellingham and later joined the Tacoma office of Graham and Dunn where he specialized in business and commercial law.[4]

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