Contact:
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REGINALD
NAMED ABI PRESIDENT-ELECT
May 1, 2006,
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color='black'> The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces
that Reginald W. Jackson of Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP
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the ABI Board of Directors to be President-Elect. He will become
President for a one-year term, beginning with ABI’s Annual Spring
Meeting in 2007. He has been an ABI member since 1992 and has served on
the 60-member ABI Board of Directors since 2002 and as the Executive
Editor of the ABI Journal since March 2002, in addition to
serving on ABI’s Publications Committee.
size='3'>Jackson
Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP and has practiced for 25 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
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inducted in 2001.
color='black'>received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law
School in 1980 and his B.A. from
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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; 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.
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by Black Enterprise Magazine.
The complete list of directors
and officers is available at
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