Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that H. David Cox of Cox Law Group (Lynchburg, Va.) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2006, Cox is the education director of ABI's Consumer Bankruptcy Committee, edited and helped revise ABI’s Consumer Bankruptcy: Fundamentals of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, Fourth Edition, and was a member of ABI’s Consumer Commission Advisory Committee on Case Administration and the Estate. He will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.

Cox practices bankruptcy law throughout the Western District of Virginia from his offices in Lynchburg, Danville, Harrisonburg, Staunton and Winchester. Prior to entering private practice, he served as a judicial law clerk for the late Hon. William E. Anderson. Cox is a permanent member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. He received his B.A. in 1992 from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and his J.D. from the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law in 1995.

The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://www.abi.org/about-us/board-directors.

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ABI is the largest multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency. ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABI membership includes nearly 11,000 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional information on ABI, visit www.abiworld.org. For additional conference information, visit http://www.abi.org/calendar-of-events.