New Officers and Board Members Elected at ABIs 24th Annual Spring Meeting
New Officers and Board Members Elected at ABIs 24th Annual Spring Meeting
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NEW OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS ELECTED AT ABI’S 24TH ANNUAL SPRING MEETING
April 26, 2006, 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 Annual Spring Meeting, held April
20-April 23 in
New members of the Executive
Committee and new officers: Judge Wesley Steen of the U.S. Bankruptcy
Court of the Southern District of Texas (Houston) becomes President for
a one-year term, succeeding
Nine new members were elected
to the ABI Board of Directors: Peter J. Antoszyk of Brown Rudnick
Berlack Israels LLP (Boston), Rudy J. Cerone of McGlinchey Stafford,
PLLC (
Directors reappointed for another three-year term are: Mitchell E. Drucker of CIT Group Inc. (New York), Judge James D. Gregg, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Michigan (Grand Rapids), Robert J. Keach of Bernstein, Shur (Portland, Maine), George M. Kelakos of Kelakos Advisors LLC (Greenwich, Conn.), James T. Markus of Block Markus Williams, LLC (Denver), Patricia A. Redmond of Stearns, Weaver et al. PA (Miami), Judge Steven W. Rhodes of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (Detroit), Robert J. Rosenberg of Latham & Watkins LLP (New York), Joseph Samet of Baker & McKenzie (New York), Anthony H.N. Schnelling of Bridge Associates LLC (New York), James Patrick Shea of Shea & Carlyon, Ltd. (Las Vegas), Lynnette Warman of Jenkens & Gilchrist, PC (Dallas) and Judge Eugene R. Wedoff of U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago). The ABI Board of Directors has 60 members.
The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://www.abiworld.org/Content/NavigationMenu/About_ABI/Board_of_Directors/Board_of_Directors.htm
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