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.
Sam was active in the America Bankruptcy Institute. He was a member of the Arlington County Republican Committee and a delegate to the Virginia State Republican Convention in 2000. In addition, Sam was interested in genealogy and served as the President and Lord of the Manor for the Wingfield Family Society.
Sam was born in Highland Park, Lake County, Illinois, and was the eldest son of the late Samuel Curtis Batsell, Jr. and Marie Theresa Wieger. He is survived by his brothers Dr. Stephen Gordon Batsell of Oak Ridge, Tennessee and David Blair Batsell of Junction City, Kansas.
Friends welcome on Friday, December 16, 2022 from 9:30-10:30 at Demaine Funeral Home, Springfield. A graveside service will follow at Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria.
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