Bankruptcy Judge Barbara J. Houser Elected to ABIs Board of Directors
Bankruptcy Judge Barbara J. Houser Elected to ABIs Board of Directors
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BANKRUPTCY JUDGE BARBARA J. HOUSER ELECTED TO ABI’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS
April 15, 2011, Alexandria, Va. — The American
Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Chief Bankruptcy Judge
Barbara J. Houser (N.D. Texas, Dallas) has been elected
to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2003, Judge
Houser has served as co-chair for ABI’s Alternative Dispute
Resolution Committee and is a frequent speaker at ABI events and
contributor to the ABI Journal. She will serve a term of three years on
the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.
Sworn in as a bankruptcy judge for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the
Northern District of Texas in 2000, Judge Houser previously was an
attorney and shareholder at Sheinfeld, Maley & Kay PC in Dallas.
While at Sheinfeld, she led the firm’s representation of clients
in a variety of significant chapter 11 cases, including as her last
major case the firm’s representation of Dow Corning
Corporation—one of the largest chapter 11 cases ever filed.
Judge Houser was elected a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy
in 1994 and currently serves as its vice president. She was elected to
membership in the National Bankruptcy Conference in 1996 and also serves
as a member of its Executive Committee. Judge Houser is also a past
president of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. A frequent
author and lecturer on corporate restructuring and insolvency law, she
is a visiting professor of law at the Dedman School of Law at Southern
Methodist University, where she teaches creditors’ rights. Judge
Houser is a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy (15th Ed.) and
the Collier Bankruptcy Manual (3d Ed.), and the National Law Journal
named her one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America in
1998. She received her J.D. from Southern Methodist University Law
School.
The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://www.abiworld.org/Content/NavigationMenu/About_ABI/Board_of_Directors/Board_of_Directors.htm.
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