Appendix B: Advisory Committee Members

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Appendix B: Advisory Committee Members

Committee on Case Administration and the Estate

Commissioners: Edward C. Boltz, Dalié Jiménez, Richardo I. Kilpatrick and Tara Twomey.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

Thomas L. Canary, Jr., Reimer Law Co. (Louisville, KY)

H. David Cox, Cox Law Group (Lynchburg, VA)

John Crane, RAS Crane LLC (Atlanta, GA)

Franklin Drake, Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers, LLP (Raleigh, NC)

James J. Haller, James J. Haller Attorney at Law (Mundelein, IL)

Michael J. McCormick, McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC (Roswell, GA)

Susan L. Myers, Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada (Las Vegas, NV)

Brian D. Shapiro, Law Office of Brian D. Shapiro (Las Vegas, NV)

Brian L. Shaw, Fox Rothschild LLP (Chicago, IL)

Alice L. Whitten, Wells Fargo Law Department (Minneapolis, MN)

Committee Chair: Bruce A. Markell

Reporter: Robert M. Lawless

Committee on Chapter 7

Commissioners: Rudy J. Cerone, Ariane Holtschlag, Ronald R. Peterson and Wendell J. Sherk.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

Karen Cordry, National Association of Attorneys General (Washington, DC)

Miriam Goott, Walker & Patterson, PC (Houston, TX)

Neil C. Gordon, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP (Atlanta, GA)

Mark C. Leffler, Boleman Law Firm, PC (Richmond, VA)

Dennis J. LeVine, Kelley Kronenberg (Tampa, FL)

Nathalie D. Martin, University of New Mexico School of Law (Albuquerque, NM)

Faiq Mihlar, Heavner, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC (Decatur, IL)

Kate E. Nicholson, Nicholson Herrick LLP (Cambridge, MA)

Joseph R. Prochaska, Reno & Cavanaugh PLLC (Nashville, TN)

Committee Chair: Randall L. Dunn

Reporter: Robert M. Lawless

Committee on Chapter 13

Commissioners: Michael T. Bates, Alane A. Becket, Henry E. Hildebrand, III and John Rao.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

Beverly M. Burden, Chapter 13 Trustee, EDKY (Lexington, KY)

Daniel L. Cummings, Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, LLC (Portland, ME)

Alex Jeffrey Dolhancyk, The Dolhancyk Law Firm, P.C. (Jonesboro, GA)

Jenny L. Doling, Doling Shaw & Hanover (Palm Desert, CA)

Angela Littwin, University of Texas School of Law (Austin, TX)

Keith Lundin (Pittsburgh, PA)

Leslie N. Mann, Mackie Wolf Zientz & Mann, P.C. (Little Rock, AR)

Jason P. Miller, Santander Consumer USA, Inc. (Dallas, TX)

James F. Molleur, Molleur Law Office (Biddeford, ME)

David G. Peake, Chapter 13 Trustee (Houston, TX)

Committee Chair: David W. Houston, III

Reporter: Robert M. Lawless

Advisory Committee Member Biographies

Beverly M. Burden has served as the chapter 13 trustee for the Eastern District of Kentucky in Lexington since 1999. She previously clerked for Hon. Joe Lee and prior to that was an assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, concentrating on consumer fraud litigation. Ms. Burden She is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, inducted in 2017, and serves on the board of directors of the NACTT Academy for Consumer Bankruptcy Education. She received her J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law and holds a B.B.A. in accounting.

Thomas L. Canary, Jr. is a senior attorney with Reimer Law Co. in Louisville, Ky., where he concentrates his practice in the areas of bankruptcy, replevin and creditors’ rights. He is admitted to practice in Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia and Ohio, as well as the federal district courts in all those states and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr Canary is the former president and shareholder of the firm of Mapother & Mapother, P.S.C. and received the National Creditors Bar Association President’s Award in 2009. He is the current author and editor of Kentucky Collections, published by Thomson Reuters, and is a frequent writer and lecturer on bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. Mr. Canary received his B.S. with honors from the University of Kentucky in 1981 and his J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1984.

Karen Cordry is bankruptcy and special issues counsel for the National Association of Attorneys General in Washington, D.C. She serves as a resource person to the states for all issues relating to the effect of bankruptcy on the activities of the attorneys general. Previously, Ms. Cordry was a field attorney with the National Labor Relations Board in Detroit and with the Office of Appeals’ Appellate Court and Contempt Litigation Sections in Washington, D.C. She is a frequent contributor to the Affairs of State column in the ABI Journal and is writing a second edition of Bankruptcy Law and the Governmental Regulatory Process. Ms. Cordry received her B.S. in biochemistry from Michigan State University in 1973, her J.D. from Wayne State University in 1977 and her LL.M. from George Washington University in 1987.

H. David Cox is an attorney with Cox Law Group in Lynchburg, Va., and practices bankruptcy law throughout the Western District of Virginia. Prior to entering private practice, he served as a law clerk for the late Hon. William E. Anderson. He coedits the...