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NEW OFFICERS
AND BOARD MEMBERS ELECTED AT ABI’S 24TH ANNUAL SPRING
MEETING
April 26, 2006, Alexandria,
Va. — The following officers and members of the Board
of Directors of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) were elected to
leadership positions at ABI’s Annual Spring Meeting, held April
20-April 23 in
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New members of the Executive
Committee and new officers: Judge Wesley Steen of the U.S. Bankruptcy
Court of the Southern District of Texas (Houston) becomes President for
a one-year term, succeeding
Penn
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sitting judge to serve as ABI President. Reggie Jackson of Vorys,
Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP (
was named President-Elect, to become President in April 2007. Michael P.
Richman of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP (
York
Corporation (
for a one-year term. Robert J. Keach of Bernstein, Shur (
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was named to a two-year term as Vice President-Education, succeeding
Neil P. Olack, who will become a bankruptcy judge in
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James Patrick Shea of Shea & Carlyon, Ltd. (
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named to a one-year term as a Member at Large on the 16-member Executive
Committee.
Nine new members were elected
to the ABI Board of Directors: Peter J. Antoszyk of Brown Rudnick
Berlack Israels LLP (Boston), Rudy J. Cerone of McGlinchey Stafford,
PLLC (
Morgan (
York
Ellis LLP (Chicago), Prof. Margaret Howard of Washington & Lee
University Law School (Lexington, Va.), Bruce S. Nathan of Lowenstein
Sandler PC (New York), Claire Ann Resop of Brennan, Steil & Basting,
SC (Madison, Wis.), Tracy C. Sandler of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(Toronto) and Ian G. Williams of Geldards LLP (Nottingham,
England).
Directors reappointed for
another three-year term are: Mitchell E. Drucker of CIT Group Inc. (New
York), Judge James D. Gregg, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western
District of Michigan (Grand Rapids), Robert J. Keach of Bernstein, Shur
(Portland, Maine), George M. Kelakos of Kelakos Advisors LLC (Greenwich,
Conn.), James T. Markus of Block Markus Williams, LLC (Denver), Patricia
A. Redmond of Stearns, Weaver et al. PA (Miami), Judge Steven W. Rhodes
of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
(Detroit), Robert J. Rosenberg of Latham & Watkins LLP (New York),
Joseph Samet of Baker & McKenzie (New York), Anthony H.N. Schnelling
of Bridge Associates LLC (New York), James Patrick Shea of Shea &
Carlyon, Ltd. (Las Vegas), Lynnette Warman of Jenkens & Gilchrist,
PC (Dallas) and Judge Eugene R. Wedoff of U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the
Northern District of Illinois (Chicago). The ABI Board of Directors has
60 members.
The complete list of directors
and officers is available at
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education on matters related to insolvency. ABI was founded in 1982 to
provide Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy
issues. The ABI membership includes more than 11,000 attorneys,
accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround
specialists and other bankruptcy professionals providing a forum for the
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