Samuel Curtis Batsell, III, ’80, 1954-2022

Samuel Curtis Batsell III

Samuel Curtis Batsell, III, 68, of Arlington, Virginia, passed away on Monday, November 28, 2022. He was a long-time resident of Northern Virginia. Sam was a graduate of Loyola University in Chicago and in 1980 graduated with a joint degree from the University of Chicago Law School and the School of Public Policy.

He began practicing law in Chicago for Isham, Lincoln & Beale before moving to California in 1984. There he taught legal writing at Boalt Hall, The University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He then clerked for Chief Bankruptcy Judge James Meyers in San Diego, and practiced bankruptcy law in Southern California. In January 1991, Sam moved to Washington, DC to work as a bankruptcy attorney for the federal government at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). He retired from PBGC in 2018.

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