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Focus on Fellows
We invite all Fellows to submit information about awards, news, and/or recent publications. Member highlights will be published on a bi-monthly basis to all Fellows through email or the College Columns as appropriate. If you have news about yourself or a colleague, please send announcements to Carole McNamara, ACB Communications Director, at [email protected].
Josiah Daniel (retired Partner in Residence of Vinson & Elkins LLP 's Dallas office) has just published 'Even If a Party Has a Change of Heart': A Proposed Framework for Enforcement of Courthouse-Steps Settlements in Cases and Proceedings in the Texas Bankruptcy Courts, 52 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 199 (2020). He is also a Visiting Scholar of the History Department of The University of Texas at Austin and is writing the biography of Congressman Hatton W. Sumners, who chaired the House Judiciary Committee from 1932-1947.
The American Bankruptcy Institute selected Chief Bankruptcy Judge Barbara J. Houser (N.D. Tex.; Dallas) as president of the board of directors for a one-year term.
Soneet R. Kapila of KapilaMukamal, LLP (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) has been named to a two-year term as American Bankruptcy Institute Treasurer.
In January and February 2020, the Honorable Karen S. Jennemann received the Florida Chief Justice’s Distinguished Federal Judicial Award, the James G. Glazebrook Memorial Bar Service Award for Professionalism from the Orange County Bar Association, and the Woman of the Year in Restructuring Award from the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation.
Gary W. Marsh has joined Troutman Sanders, LLP as a partner in the Finance and Restructuring practice.
The second edition of Dr. Luis Manuel C. Méjan's book, Agenda Concursal, has been released. The book is a compilation of all the regulations on Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law existing in Mexico, including Supreme Court and Constitutional tribunals decisions, since the colonial period until January 2020.
Suzzanne Uhland has joined Latham & Watkins LLP's New York office as a partner in the Restructuring & Special Situations Practice within the Finance Department.
Scott A. Wolfson has been appointed to the American Arbitration Association’s National Roster of Commercial Arbitrators.