Officers
G. Christopher Meyer
Chair
Marc A. Levinson
President
Hon. Joan N. Feeney
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
Agustin Berdeja-Prieto
Francis X. Buckley, Jr.
Daniel C. Cohn
Dennis Connolly
Lawrence D. Coppel
Jeffrey H. Davidson
Karen A. Giannelli
Annette W. Jarvis
James R. Kelley
Eric W. Lam
Patrick Thomas McCarthy
Claudia Z. Springer
Catherine Steege
Jane L. Vris
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
Michael J. Goldberg (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.)
Kenneth L. Cannon, II (10th Cir.)
Sarah R. Borders (11th Cir.)
Timothy R. Coleman
At Large
Prof. Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger
At Large
Hon. Jeffery P. Hopkins
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]
Induction Ceremony at the Annual Meeting
Marc A. Levinson, President
It is my pleasure to report on the March 10, 2017, Induction Ceremony at the Smithsonian Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art
and Portraiture Museum, held in conjunction with the College’s Annual Meeting. The event drew approximately 450 attendees, and once again the venue, the ceremony and the reception thereafter drew rave reviews. We look forward to another successful event at the Museum on March 16, 2018.
Other than the welcoming remarks from Chairman of the Board, Chris Meyer, the induction ceremony consisted of two distinct parts. The first was the introduction of the recipient of the College’s Distinguished Service Award followed by the remarks of the honoree, Judge Thomas L. Ambro. The second was the induction of the members of Class 28. Rick Mikels, Chair of the Board of Regents, discusses the latter in his column, so I will focus on the Distinguished Service Award.
The criteria for selecting the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award were approved by the Board in October of 2012, and may be found under the News & Events tab at the top of the College website. A list of past recipients may be accessed by a link under that tab. The criteria
are stringent:
1. The recipient must have made significant accomplishments in improving the administration of justice in the insolvency and bankruptcy field;
2. The recipient must have provided distinguished service consistently rendered over a considerable period of time or a single outstanding achievement in a particular year. (The fact that a single achievement may have occurred before the year of recognition is not material.);
3. The accomplishments must arise from voluntary activities rather than for services rendered to a client as a paid professional. (This is not intended to exclude members of the judiciary, Congress, or the academic community.);
4. The recipient shall be a member of the American College of Bankruptcy; and
5. The recipient must distinguish himself or herself or his or her institution in a manner and in matters that are consistent with the goals and purposes of the College.
The recipient of the Distinguished Service Award selects the person to introduce him or her, and Judge Ambro chose D.J. (Jan) Baker, the esteemed former College President and Chairman of the Board. Baker first discussed Judge Ambro’s “paper” qualifications for the Award: Among others, outstanding bankruptcy practitioner in Delaware prior to his becoming a judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in 2000, active participant in the College, the National Bankruptcy Conference and the American Law Institute, former Chair of the Section of Business
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