Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Jennifer Kimble of Lowenstein Sandler LLP (New York) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 2006, Kimble is the education director of ABI's Business Reorganization Committee and is a member of the Bankruptcy Litigation Committee, an inaugural member of ABI’s “40 Under 40” program, an advisory board member for ABI’s Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop and Professional Development Program, and a frequent speaker at ABI events. She will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.

Kimble is a corporate restructuring attorney with more than a decade of experience representing chapter 11 debtors, creditors’ and retiree committees, chapter 7 trustees, and other creditors in bankruptcy proceedings, preference actions, commercial transactions, commercial litigation and out-of-court restructurings. She has extensive experience in all aspects of chapter 11 cases, including first-day motions, noticing issues, negotiating DIP financing, § 363 sales, contract assumption, §§ 1113/1114 matters, and plan confirmation and implementation. She is skilled in claims-resolution processes and well versed in post-confirmation trusts and the litigation of chapter 5 claims.

Kimble serves as treasurer on the executive board of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC). She received her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 2005 and her B.A. summa cum laude from Mississippi State University in 2002.

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.