Attorney General Eric Holder appointed Andrew R. Vara as Acting U.S. Trustee for Region 3 (Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) and Daniel J. Casamatta as the Acting U.S. Trustee for Region 13 (Arkansas, Missouri and Nebraska), both effective on Jan. 1, the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees announced yesterday. Vara replaces Roberta A. DeAngelis, who is retiring after more than 15 years with the U.S. Trustee Program (USTP), including more than eight years as Region 3 U.S. Trustee or Acting U.S. Trustee. Vara has served as the Assistant U.S. Trustee in the USTP’s Cleveland office since 2008. He also previously has headed the USTP’s offices in Wilmington, Del., and Manhattan, as Assistant U.S. Trustee and Acting Assistant U.S. Trustee, respectively. For more on Vara’s appointment: http://www.justice.gov/ust/eo/public_affairs/press/docs/2014/pr20141208…
Casamatta replaces Nancy J. Gargula, the U.S. Trustee for Region 10 (Indiana and Central and Southern Illinois), who concurrently has served as the U.S. Trustee for Region 13 since 2006. Casamatta has served as the Assistant U.S. Trustee in the Kansas City, Mo., office of the USTP since 2008. Prior to that appointment, he served as Assistant U.S. Trustee in Grand Rapids, Mich., for 18 years, and for periods of time was also the Acting Assistant U.S. Trustee in Indianapolis and the Acting Chief of the USTP’s National Bankruptcy Training Institute located in the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, S.C. For more on Casamatta’s appointment: http://www.justice.gov/ust/eo/public_affairs/press/docs/2014/pr20141208…