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New Officers and Board Members Elected at ABIs 26th Annual Spring Meeting

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NEW OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS ELECTED AT ABI’S 26TH
ANNUAL SPRING MEETING

April 8, 2008, 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 26th Annual Spring
Meeting, held April 3-6 in
w:st='on'>Washington,
w:st='on'>D.C.:

John W. Ames of
Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald PLLC (
w:st='on'>Louisville, Ky.)
becomes ABI President for a one-year term, succeeding Reginald W.
Jackson of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP (
w:st='on'>Columbus,
w:st='on'>Ohio), who now assumes the position of

Immediate-Past President. Robert J. Keach of Bernstein Shur
(Portland,
Maine) was named
President-Elect, to become President in April 2009. Judge Wesley W.
Steen of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of Texas

(Houston) succeeds John Penn of Haynes and Boone LLP (Fort Worth,

Texas) as Chairman of the Board for a one-year term. James T.
Markus of Block, Markus & Williams (
w:st='on'>Denver) was named
to a two-year term as Vice President-Education, succeeding Keach. Judge
Eugene R. Wedoff of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of

Northern Illinois (
w:st='on'>Chicago) was named to the newly created

board position of Vice President-Information and Technology. James
Patrick Shea of Shea & Carlyon (
w:st='on'>Las Vegas) succeeds Judge Wedoffas
Secretary.

Twelve new members were elected

to the ABI Board of Directors:
color='black'>Jo Ann J. Brighton,
color='black'>of Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman, LLP
(Charlotte, N.C.),
face='Times' color='black'>H. Slayton Dabney, Jr.
face='Times' color='black'>of King & Spalding LLP (New
York),  Judge Jeffery P.
Hopkins of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District
of Ohio (Cincinnati), Deirdre A.
Martini of Wachovia Capital Finance (New
York), Jeff J.
Marwil of Winston & Strawn LLP
(Chicago),  Prof.Nancy B.
Rapoport of the William S. Boyd School of Law (Las
Vegas), Judge Barry Russell of the U.S. Bankruptcy
Court for the Central District of California (Los Angeles),
face='Times' color='black'>Sheryl L. Toby 
color='black'>of Dykema Gossett PLLC (Detroit),  
Albert Togut of Togut, Segal & Segal, LLP (New York),
Prof. G. Ray Warner of St. John's University and Of Counsel
to Greenberg Traurig, LLP (Jamaica, N.Y.),
color='black'>David B. Wheeler of
Moore & Van Allen, PLLC (Charleston, S.C.) and Judge Gregg W.
Zive of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada (Reno,
Nev.). The ABI Board of Directors has 60 members.
face='Times'> 

ABI’s Executive Committee

increased from 16 to 17 overall members as Jeffrey N. Pomerantz
of Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl & Jones PC (Los Angeles) and John
Tittle Jr. of NachmanHaysBrownstein, Inc. (Dallas) joined the
following committee members: John W. Ames of Greenebaum Doll
& McDonald PLLC (Louisville,
Ky.), Geoffrey L. Berman of
Development Specialists Inc. (Los Angeles), Prof. Ralph F.
Brubaker of the University of Illinois College of Law (Champaign,
Ill.), Reginald W. Jackson of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and
Pease LLP (Columbus, Ohio), Robert J. Keach of Bernstein Shur
(Portland, Maine), Melissa Kibler Knoll of Mesirow Financial
Consulting LLC (Chicago), James T. Markus of Block, Markus &
Williams LLC (Denver), Josefina Fernandez McEvoy of K&L Gates

LLP (Los Angeles), Patricia A. Redmond of Stearns, Weaver,
Miller, et al. (Miami), Judge Steven W. Rhodes of the U.S.
Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (Detroit),
Rebecca A. Roof of AlixPartners LLC (New York), Anthony H.N.
Schnelling of Bridge Associates LLC (New York), James Patrick
Shea of Shea & Carlyon Ltd. (Las Vegas), Judge Wesley W.
Steen of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of Texas

(Houston) and Judge Eugene R. Wedoff of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court

for the District of Northern Illinois (Chicago).

The complete list of directors
and officers is available at

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Tuesday, April 8, 2008