About the Authors

• Jurisdiction: United States

Hon. Deborah L. Thorne is a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago, appointed on Oct. 22, 2015. She is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the Board of Governors for the Seventh Circuit Bar Association, and sits on ABI's Board of Directors, having previously served as ABI's Vice President-Communication and Information Technology. Previously, Judge Thorne was a partner with Barnes & Thornburg LLP in Chicago. Her practice included the representation of creditors and other parties in insolvency proceedings, and she frequently served as a federal equity receiver in commodity fraud cases brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. In addition, she served as co-chair of the Women's Initiative for the firm and as a federal equity receiver in cases involving commodity fraud in the Northern District of Illinois. Judge Thorne is a past chair of both the Chicago Bar Association's Bankruptcy Committee and the Seventh Circuit Bar Association's Bankruptcy Committee. She authored previous editions ofABI's Preference Defense Handbook, The Circuits Compared and is one of the authors of ABI's Interrupted! Understanding Bankruptcy's Effects on...