Hon. Sage Sigler Elected to ABI's Board of Directors

Hon. Sage Sigler Elected to ABI's Board of Directors

Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Hon. Sage Sigler (U.S. Bankruptcy Court (N.D. Ga.); Atlanta) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2010, Judge Sigler serves on ABI’s Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop Advisory Board, was on the steering committee for ABI’s “40 Under 40” Program (having also been an honoree herself of the Program’s inaugural class in 2017), served on ABI’s Legislation Committee, and has written and spoken on key bankruptcy issues. She also is a volunteer presenter for the Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) program. Judge Sigler will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.

Judge Sigler was appointed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta in March 2018. She succeeded Hon. Mary Grace Diehl, for whom she clerked after graduating from law school. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Sigler was a partner in Alston & Bird LLP’s Bankruptcy Group. She is an active member of ABI, IWIRC, TMA and the Bankruptcy Section of the Atlanta Bar Association. She received her B.A. in political science from the University of Florida in 2001 and her J.D. in 2006 from Emory University School of Law, where she was a member of the executive board of the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal.

 

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 10,000 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.