About David
David Chenelle built a steady academic foundation before entering law. He earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1979 after beginning studies there in 1975. He returned to graduate education in the 1980s, completing an MBA with a concentration in Information Systems at the University of New Haven in 1989. He finished his legal training at the Massachusetts School of Law, receiving his J.D. in 1995.
Chenelle’s bar memberships span state and federal jurisdictions. He joined the Massachusetts bar in 1995 and became a member of the New Hampshire bar in 1996. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Over the years he has taken on roles that reach beyond private practice, including service on local and state committees that touch on court procedure and attorney oversight.
His involvement in the legal community has been consistent. In 2015 he served on the Local Rules Committee for the District of Massachusetts, helping to shape procedural guidelines used by federal courts in the state. He has been active in bankruptcy-focused organizations since at least 2008, holding memberships in the American Bankruptcy Institute and the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Lawyers. In Worcester, he served on the Worcester Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Section executive board from 2006 to 2011 and then as Co-Chair of that section beginning in 2011; his term as Co-Chair is recorded through 2019.
A notable chapter of Chenelle’s public service is his work with the Client Security Board of the Supreme Judicial Court. He joined that board in 2018 and has served as its chair. The board addresses claims and matters related to client protections in the state’s legal system, and his chairmanship places him in regular contact with oversight and ethics issues affecting practitioners.
Those roles reflect a practice shaped around bankruptcy and related consumer matters, and they show an attorney comfortable in both the courtroom and committee rooms. He has combined membership in professional associations with committee work at the local and state level. The result is a career that mixes casework and governance in the bankruptcy field.
He currently practices in matters involving bankruptcy and consumer insolvency issues.
