Officers
G. Christopher Meyer
Chair
Marc A. Levinson
President
Hon. Mary Grace Diehl
Vice-President
Grant T. Stein
Vice-President
R. Patrick Vance
Vice-President
Thomas E. Lumsden
Treasurer
Susan M. Freeman
Secretary
Board of Directors
Marc Abrams
Francis X. Buckley, Jr.
Daniel C. Cohn
Dennis Connolly
Lawrence D. Coppel
Jeffrey H. Davidson
Karen A. Giannelli
Annette W. Jarvis
Eric W. Lam
Stephen D. Lerner
Patrick Thomas McCarthy
Claudia Z. Springer
Catherine Steege
Jane L. Vris
Howard J. Weg
Deborah D. Williamson
Ex Officio Directors
Michael L. Cook
Mark D. Bloom, Chair, ACB Foundation
Board of Regents
Richard E. Mikels
Chair, Board of Regents
Mark N. Berman (1st Cir.)
Dennis F. Dunne (2nd Cir.)
David B. Stratton (3rd Cir.)
Richard L. Wasserman (4th Cir.)
Berry D. Spears (5th Cir.)
Taft McKinstry (6th Cir.)
Kenneth J. Malek (7th Cir.)
David A. Warfield (8th Cir.)
Thomas E. Patterson (9th Cir.)
Carl A. Eklund (10th Cir.)
Sarah R. Borders (11th Cir.)
Timothy R. Coleman
At Large
Hon. Joan N. Feeney
At Large
Prof. Melissa B. Jacoby
At Large
Scholar-in-Residence
Prof. Ralph Brubaker
Counsel
William J. Perlstein
Executive Director
Shari A. Bedker
American College of Bankruptcy
P.O. Box 249
Stanardsville, VA 22973
434-939-6004
Email: [email protected]
President's Column
Marc A. Levinson, President
College Luncheon Meeting in San Francisco
Almost 200 Fellows attended
the October 26, 2016 luncheon meeting at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis held in connection with the NCBJ annual meeting. After lunch, there were remarks and reports from Chris Meyer, Chair of the College Board of Directors, from Mark Bloom, Chair of the Foundation Board, and from the Chairs of the Distinguished Service Award Committee and Senior Fellows Committee (Zack Clement and Bob Rosenberg, respectively). Thereafter, Tara Twomey, Project Director for the National Consumer Bankruptcy Rights Center, related anecdotes and examples of the good use by consumer bankruptcy agencies of the College’s and the Foundation’s grants (which exceeded $320,000 in 2015 and will exceed $468,000 in 2016) – hopefully encouraging Fellows to dig deep and donate prior to year-end.
While the presentations were interesting and informative, the clear highlight of the luncheon was the keynote address by Willie L. Brown, Jr., the former Speaker of the California Assembly (1980-1995) and two-term Mayor of the City of San Francisco (1996-2004). Mayor Brown currently serves as a director or trustee of several charitable and educational institutions, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum
of African American History and Culture. He writes an enlightening and entertaining column for the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle, commenting on San Francisco culture, politics and quirks, and reviewing a movie. Mayor Brown is the ultimate San Francisco insider, and is considered by many to be the heart and soul of that fascinating city.
Covering a wide range of topics, Mayor Brown shared his thoughts about how he came to serve as a newspaper columnist, about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and the election that would be held two weeks later, and about California and national politics, generally. The talk was educational, amusing and, in a word, riveting. His witty and informative responses during the question and answer period were the icing on the cake.
Willie L. Brown, Jr.
Fostering Diversity
Like any institution, the College is only as good as the next generation of its membership. For 27 years, the various Circuit Admissions Councils and the two Nominating Committees have recommended the admission of only those bankruptcy
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