Speaker
Bios:
Hon. Joan N. Feeney has been a U.S. Bankruptcy
Judge for the District
of Massachusetts in Boston since 1992 and is currently the Chief
Judge.
She has also been a member of the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for
the
First Circuit since 1996. Judge Feeney is a member of the
Bankruptcy
Advisory Group to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts,
a member
of the Board of Governors of the National Conference of
Bankruptcy Judges
and a co-chair of the Massachusetts Local Rules Advisory
Committee, and
was recently elected a Fellow of the American College of
Bankruptcy.
She is judicial chair of ABI’s Northeast Bankruptcy
Conference.
Prior to her appointment, Judge Feeney was a partner in the
Boston firm
of Hanify & King, where she practiced in bankruptcy and
insolvency
matters. A frequent author and lecturer on bankruptcy law
topics, Judge
Feeney received her B.A. from Connecticut College and her J.D.
from Suffolk
University Law School.
Hon. David Winston Houston III is a U.S.
Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern
District of Mississippi in Aberdeen, Miss. He is a member of the
Federal
Judicial Center, the Mississippi Trial Lawyers Associates,
Southeastern
Bankruptcy Law Institute and the South Florida, Memphis and
North Carolina
Bar Associations. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge
Houston
was a special agent with the FBI, a partner at Houston,
Chamberlin and
Houston in Aberdeen, the city attorney for Aberdeen and the
assistant
district attorney for the First Circuit Court District of
Mississippi.
A past member of ABI’s Board of Directors, he earned his
business
degree from the University of Mississippi and his J.D. at the
University
of Mississippi Law School.
Hon. Linda B. Riegle was appointed to a
14-year term of office as a
Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Nevada in 1988 and was
reappointed
to a second term in 2002. She served as the Chief Bankruptcy
Judge for
the District of Nevada from July 1993 to October 1999, and
served as
the Chair of the Chief Bankruptcy Judges for the Ninth Circuit
from October
1998 to October 1999. Judge Riegle was employed at Lionel Sawyer
& Collins
in Las Vegas from 1977-88, becoming the first female partner in
that
firm in 1983. She has served as the Chair of the Local Rules
Committee
for the District of Nevada, a member of the Board of Governors
of the
National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ), on the Ninth
Circuit
Bankruptcy Judges Education Committee, and on the Legislative
Committee
of the NCBJ. She also has sat as a pro tem judge for the
Bankruptcy Appellate
Panel of the Ninth Circuit and she has lectured on gaming and
bankruptcy
issues for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Annual
Meeting,
the Mississippi State Bar and the International Association of
Gaming
Attorneys. She has also lectured at the Southern Methodist
University’s
Bankruptcy Litigation Institute, ABI’s Southwest
Bankruptcy Conference
and the Norton Bankruptcy Institute on various bankruptcy
issues. She
earned her B.S. magna cum laude from Shepherd College, her M.A.
from
the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the State University of
New
York at Albany and her J.D. from Albany Law School, where she
was an
editor of the Law Review.
Hon. Mary F. Walrath was appointed U.S.
Bankruptcy Judge for the District
of Delaware in Wilmington and became Chief Bankruptcy Judge on
Sept.
9, 2003. Judge Walrath was an associate at Clark Ladner
Fortenbaugh & Young
from 1982-87 and a partner from 1987 until its dissolution in
1996. She
then became a partner at Walrath & Coolidge in 1996 and
later a shareholder
of Jacoby Donner PC. Judge Walrath’s 17 years of legal
experience
as an attorney concentrated in the areas of debtor/creditor
rights and
commercial litigation. She received an A.B. in history from
Princeton
University, where she received four varsity letters and was
captain of
the women’s basketball team. She earned her J.D. cum laude
from
Villanova University, where she was a member of the Villanova
Law Review
for two years and was awarded the Order of the Coif.
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