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size='3'>REGINALD W. JACKSON

NAMED ABI PRESIDENT


size='3'>April 19, 2007, Alexandria, Va.
size='3'>— The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces
that Reginald W. Jackson of Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP
(
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size='3'>Ohio) has been
named President by the ABI Board of Directors. He succeeds Judge Wesley
Steen as ABI President and will serve a one-year term that began at
ABI’s 25
size='3'>th Anniversary Annual Spring
Meeting held on April 12-15 in Washington, D.C.
w:st='on'>
size='3'>Jackson has been
an ABI member since 1992 and has served on the 60-member ABI Board of
Directors since 2002. He was an At Large Member of the Executive
Committee, the Executive Editor of the ABI Journal
size='3'>and a member of the ABI Law Review Advisory
Board.  


w:st='on'>
size='3'>Jacksonis a
partner at Vorys, Sater and has practiced for 26 years in the corporate
restructuring, workout and bankruptcy areas with an emphasis on
representing secured creditors, creditors' committees and debtors in
chapter 11 reorganization proceedings and workouts. He is a fellow of
the
face='Times New Roman' size='3'>American

size='3'>College of
Bankruptcy, having been inducted in 2001.
w:st='on'>
size='3'>Jackson received his J.D. from

the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1980 and his B.A.
from
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size='3'>University in

1977.

Jackson is also a member
of the Columbus Bar Association, where he has served on the Board of
Governors and for which he served as the chairman of its Bankruptcy
Committee from 1990-92; a former member of the American Bar Association
(member, Business Law Section, Business Bankruptcy Committee, Chapter 11

and Executory Contracts Subcommittee); the Ohio State Bar Association,
where he serves as District 7 Representative on the Board of Governors
and was on the Council of Delegates for 2002-05; and the Ohio State Bar
Foundation, for which he served as president in 2001.
w:st='on'>
size='3'>Jackson has been named one of
“
face='Times New Roman'
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size='3'>'s Top Lawyers” by

size='3'>Black Enterprise Magazine
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The complete list of directors
and officers is available at

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