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NEW OFFICERS
AND BOARD MEMBERS ELECTED AT ABI’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY
ANNUAL SPRING MEETING

 

April 25, 2007, 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 25th Anniversary Annual
Spring Meeting, held April 12 – 15 in
w:st='on'>Washington,
w:st='on'>D.C.:

New members of the Executive
Committee and new officers include: Reggie Jackson of Vorys,

Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP (
w:st='on'>Columbus,
w:st='on'>Ohio) becomes President for a one-year

term, succeeding Judge Wesley Steen of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court
of the Southern District of Texas (Houston), who now assumes the
position of Immediate-Past President. John W. Ames of Greenebaum,

Doll & McDonald PLLC (
w:st='on'>Louisville,
w:st='on'>Ky.) was named President-Elect, to
become President in April 2008. John Penn of Haynes and Boone LLP

(Fort Worth,
w:st='on'>Texas) succeeds Michael P. Richman of Foley

& Lardner LLP (New
York) as Chairman of the Board for a one-year
term. Geoffrey L. Berman of Development Specialists, Inc.
(Los Angeles) was named to a two-year
term as Vice President-Publications, succeeding
w:st='on'>Ames. Josefina
Fernandez McEvoy of K&L Gates LLP (Los
Angeles) was named Vice President-International, succeeding
George Kelakos of Kelakos Advisors LLC (
w:st='on'>Greenwich,
w:st='on'>Conn.). Dillon E. Jackson of
Foster Pepper PLLC (Seattle) is succeeded as Secretary by Judge
Eugene R. Wedoff of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of

Northern Illinois (
w:st='on'>Chicago).

Eight new members were elected
to the ABI Board of Directors:
color='black'>Chip Bowles of Greenebaum
Doll & McDonald PLLC (Louisville, Ky.),

color='black'>Howard Brod Brownstein of
NachmanHaysBrownstein Inc. (Narberth, Pa.),  Judge
face='Times' color='black'>Dennis Dow of the U.S. Bankruptcy
Court for the Western District of Missouri (Kansas City),
face='Times' color='black'>Bruce Harwood of Sheehan, Phinney,

Bass & Green (Manchester, N.H.),
color='black'>Jean Maess of Thomson West (Rochester,
N.Y.),  Lynn
Tavennerof Tavenner & Beran, PLC (Richmond, Va.),
Deborah Thorne of Barnes
& Thornburg LLP (Chicago) and 
color='black'>R. Scott Williamsof Haskell Slaughter Young
& Rediker LLC (Birmingham, Ala.). 

Directors reappointed for
another three-year term are: John W. Ames of Greenebaum Doll
& McDonald PLLC (Louisville,
Ky.), Peter Antoszyk of
Proskauer Rose LLP (Bsoton), Matt Bordwin of Keen Consultants,
LLC (Great Neck, N.Y.), Prof. Ralph Brubaker of the University of

Illinois College of Law (
w:st='on'>Champaign,
w:st='on'>Ill.), Melyssa Barrett of Visa
USA Inc. (San Francisco), Francis Conway of Mercer Management
Consulting (New York), Reggie Jackson of Vorys, Sater,
Seymour and Pease LLP (Columbus, Ohio), Peter Kaufman of Gordian
Group LLC (New York), Melissa Knoll of Mesirow Financial
Consulting LLC (Chicago), Bruce Nathan of Lowenstein
Sandler PC (New York), Nancy Peterman of Greenberg Taurig, LLP
(Chicago) and Chester Salomon of Stevens & Lee PC (New York).

The ABI Board of Directors has 60 members.

The complete list of directors
and officers is available at

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