In 2023, the Senior Fellows Committee launched an initiative in coordination with the Bankruptcy History Committee to collect the stories of Fellows who have been in the insolvency field for 40+ years. In roughly 1,000 words, the stories explain:
- How and why you got involved in bankruptcy matters;
- Who, if anyone, were your early mentors; and
- Which referees or judges presided over your cases.
If you would like to participate, please email your submissions to Jenny Cudahy at jcudahy@amercol.org. To date, almost 130 Fellows have contributed to this project. Read on to learn about the origin stories of the following Fellows:
Prof. Richard Aaron
Arthur Abramowitz
Hon. Louise Adler
Jay Alix
Philip D. Anker
James Baillie
D.J. (Jan) Baker
Corinne Ball
Michael Baxter
Charles A. Beckham, Jr.
Paul Berens
Douglas Bernstein
Robert S. Bernstein
Mark D. Bloom
Michael Bloom
Hon. Paul Bonapfel
J. William Boone
J. Scott Bovitz
Diana Carey
Richard Carmody
Hon. James Carr
Steve Case
Hon. Charles G. Case, II
Rob Charles
E. Franklin Childress, Jr.
Marc Cohen
Jules Cohen
Charles T. Coleman
Hon. Roberta Colton
Neal Colton
Michael L. Cook
Lawrence D. Coppel
Josiah M. Daniel
Hon. Mary Grace Diehl
F. Wayne Elggren
Larry Engel
Hon. Robert Faris
Stephen Felderstein
Hon. Eric Frank
Susan M. Freeman
Hon. Cate Furay
Toby Gerber
Hon. Robert E. Gerber (ret.)
Karen Giannelli
Leonard H. Gilbert
Daniel C. Glosband
Jay Goffman
Harry Greenfield
Hon. Allan Gropper
Karen Gross
Jan Hamilton
Richard Havel
Jan M. Hayden
Edward M. Heller
Richard W. Hill
Stuart Hirshfield
Frederick D. Holden, Jr.
Camille Hope
Patrick Hughes
Michael Joseph
Andrew Kassner
William Katchen
Jeffrey W. Kelley
Marc Kirschner
David Kleiman
John Kozyak
Eric Lam
David A. Lander
Robert Lapowsky
David Leta
Marc Levinson
James Lodoen
Hon. Margaret Mann
Hon. Robert Mark
Robert D. Martin
Lawrence D. McMichael
Patrick E. Mears
Rick Mikels
Thomas Moers Mayer
Hon. Dennis Montali
Hon. Geraldine Mund
Sally S. Neely
William L. Norton, III
Hon. Robert Nugent
Dennis O'Grady
Judy A. O'Neill
Hon. George Paine
Lloyd Palans
James A. Pardo, Jr.
William Patrick
James Peck
Larry Peitzman
Bill Perlstein
Ronald R. Peterson
Hon. Marjorie Rendell
Robert J. Rosenberg
Steve Rosenblatt
David Rubin
Thomas Salerno
Eric Schaffer
G. Blaine Schwabe III
Richard S. Seltzer
Ray Shapiro
Paul M. Singer
Edwin Smith
Hon. Karen Specie
Claudia Z. Springer
William E. Steffes
Grant Stein
Kaaran Thomas
Hon. Deborah Thorne
Richard S. Toder
Al Togut
Myron Trepper
Ron Trost
R. Patrick Vance
Charles Vihon
Victor Vilaplana
Irving E. Walker
Richard Wasserman
Hon. Eugene Wedoff
Bill Weintraub
Hon. Diane Weiss Sigmund
Jay Westbrook
P. Sabin Willett
Jack Zackin
Daniel Zazove