Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Jennifer McLemore of Williams Mullen (Richmond, Va.) has been elected to serve as an at-large member of ABI’s Executive Committee. An ABI member since 2004, McLemore is a co-chair of ABI's Unsecured Trade Creditors Committee and a member of ABI’s Young and New Members Committee, and she is a member of ABI's “40 Under 40” Steering Committee, a member of the advisory board for ABI’s Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop and a frequent speaker at ABI events. She will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.

McLemore is a partner with Williams Mullen in Richmond, Va., where she focuses her practice on representing creditors and debtors in chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcy proceedings and, on a limited basis, creditors in chapter 13 bankruptcy cases. She previously was a partner in Christian & Barton’s Bankruptcy group.

From August 2001-02, McLemore was a judicial clerk for Hon. F. G. Rockwell III and Hon. William R. Shelton, both of the Circuit Court of Chesterfield County, Va., and from August 2002 through August 2003, she clerked for Hon. Douglas O. Tice Jr., Chief Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. She received her J.D. from the University of Richmond School of Law in 2001 and her B.A. from Miami University (Ohio) in 1998.

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.