Alexandria, Va. — The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) announces that Kristina M. Johnson of Jones Walker LLP (Jackson, Miss.) has been elected to ABI’s Board of Directors. An ABI member since 1994, Johnson is a member of ABI’s “40 Under 40” Steering Committee, serves on the advisory board of the Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop, is a Southeast Regional Development Fundraising Chair, and has written and spoken at ABI events on key bankruptcy topics. She will serve a term of three years on the 60-member ABI Board of Directors.

Johnson is a partner in Jones Walker's Litigation Practice Group, where she counsels on complex and cross-jurisdictional bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, workout, receivership, commercial litigation and collection matters. She has represented secured and unsecured creditors, buyers of assets in bankruptcy sales, contract parties, trustees, and unsecured creditors' committees and debtors. Johnson served as co-leader of Jones Walker's Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors'-Debtors' Rights team from 2012–2020. As the only female attorney in Mississippi selected as a Fellow by the American College of Bankruptcy and one of only six attorneys in Mississippi who are board-certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification, she has handled a broad range of bankruptcy and insolvency litigation in chapter 11 and chapter 7 cases, as well as in less-common chapter 9 and chapter 12 cases and chapter 13 class-action adversary proceedings and receiverships. Johnson is a peer-selected Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and the American College of Bankruptcy. She is also active in the leadership of numerous national, state and local bar associations, conferences and related organizations. Johnson has served on multiple committees during her career, including the steering committee to rewrite the Mississippi Local Bankruptcy Rules. She is an annual contributing author to West's^® Bankruptcy Exemption Manual and presents on a broad range of bankruptcy and other insolvency industry issues. Johnson received her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1992 and her B.B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Mississippi in 1989.

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.