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2008 Midwest Regional Bankruptcy Seminar 2014 Midwest Regional Bankruptcy Seminar Faculty Biographies Honorable Beth A. Buchanan United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Ohio Beth A. Buchanan was appointed as United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Ohio on May 10, 2011. Prior to her appointment, Judge Buchanan was a member of Frost Brown Todd LLC in the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group where she practiced exclusively in the areas of bankruptcy and insolvency law, representing debtors, creditors’ committee, secured lenders and unsecured creditors in numerous complex chapter 7, 11 and 15 bankruptcy proceedings. Prior to obtaining her law degree, Judge Buchanan worked in banking for over eight years with two major financial institutions. Judge Buchanan is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Thomas F. Waldron American Bankruptcy Law Forum, the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, the Cincinnati Bar Association and is the Chairperson of the Local Bankruptcy Rules Standing Committee for the Southern District of Ohio. Judge Buchanan graduated in 1986 from The Ohio State University with a B.S.B.A. degree and earned her J.D. degree in 1997 from the University of Dayton School of Law, where she graduated summa cum laude. (MRBS Presentations: Judge’s Roundtable on Professionalism) Honorable Robert E. Gerber United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York Robert E. Gerber is a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York. Since his appointment to the bench in September 2000, Judge Gerber has presided over a wide variety of chapter 11, chapter 7, chapter 15, section 304 and SIPA cases—including PSINet, Ames Department Stores, Global Crossing, Adelphia, ABIZ, Basis Yield Alpha Fund, Lyondell Chemical, BearingPoint, DBSD North America, Chemtura, Pinnacle Airlines, Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt and General Motors. He has over 150 published opinions, principally in the business bankruptcy and corporate governance areas. He has presided over about 20 cases with over $100 million in assets and debt, including 10 with more than $1 billion in assets and debt. Judge Gerber earned a B.S. degree in industrial engineering, with high honors, from Rutgers University (from which he graduated in 1967), and a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Columbia Law School, from which he graduated in 1970, and where, among other things, he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and then a James Kent Scholar. Before going on the bench, he practiced with the firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, in New York City, specializing in securities and commercial litigation and, thereafter, bankruptcy litigation and counseling. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School; a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy; and a Fellow (and Director) of the American College of Bankruptcy. He has been named by Turnarounds and Workouts as one of the nation’s outstanding bankruptcy judges six times. (MRBS Presentations: Life After Bellingham: Did the Supreme Court Get it Right?, Commercial – How Secured are Secured Creditors? The Changing Landscape In and Out of Chapter 11) Faculty Biographies Page 1 of 20 Honorable John E. Hoffman, Jr. United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Ohio John E. Hoffman, Jr. was appointed as United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Ohio in 2000. Prior to his appointment, Judge Hoffman was a partner in the Columbus office of Arter & Hadden LLP, where he practiced primarily in the areas of bankruptcy and commercial litigation. His practice focused on the representation of Chapter 11 debtors and creditors’ committees. Judge Hoffman joined Arter & Hadden in 1989 after completing a judicial clerkship with the Honorable R. Guy Cole, Jr. (formerly a bankruptcy judge, now sitting on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals). Judge Hoffman previously served as Chair of the Columbus Bar Association Bankruptcy Committee. He served on the Board of Trustees for The Legal Aid Society of Columbus from 1995– 2000. Judge Hoffman is an active member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. He served on the Board of Directors of the NCBJ’s Endowment for Education from 2006–2011 and as Chair of the Endowment from 2007–2009. He has served on the NCBJ Education Committee (2013) and is currently serving on the NCBJ Elections Committee. In April 2013, Chief Justice Roberts appointed Judge Hoffman to a three-year term on the Federal Judicial Center Bankruptcy Judge Education Committee. Judge Hoffman is an adjunct professor of law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where he sits on the law school’s National Council. Judge Hoffman is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute. In 2012, Judge Hoffman received the Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Service by a Judge presented by the Columbus Bar Association and Columbus Bar Foundation. Judge Hoffman received his B.A. summa cum laude from Wheeling Jesuit University in 1980, and his J.D. magna cum laude from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 1983. (MRBS Presentations: Consumer - Potpourri Panel Discussion: Retention Issues, Conversion Issues and Lien Stripping) Honorable Jeffery P. Hopkins United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Ohio Hon. Jeffery P. Hopkins was appointed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio on April 1, 1996 and reappointed on April 1, 2010. Judge Hopkins is the 2010 Hon. William K. Thomas Distinguished Jurist Award recipient from the Moritz College of Law. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and member of the American Law Institute. Judge Hopkins is also the past President of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. Currently, he serves as a Director of the American Bankruptcy Institute and member of several U.S. Judicial Conference committees and subcommittees by appointment of Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr. Judge Hopkins has an extensive public service record and has been in private practice. While in private practice, he was associated with the law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey from 1987 to 1990. In 1990, he was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. From 1993 to 1996, Judge Hopkins served as Chief of the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office. He also participated in the civil prosecution of health care and defense fraud cases involving the United States and defended officers and employees of the United States who had been sued. Prior to beginning his practice, he clerked on the Sixth Circuit for Honorable Alan E. Norris. Judge Hopkins received a A.B. from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1982 and his Juris Doctor from Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University in 1985. (MRBS Presentations: Ethics Roundtable) Faculty Biographies Page 2 of 20 Honorable Guy R. Humphrey United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Ohio Guy R. Humphrey, a 1984 graduate of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, is a Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio, sitting in Dayton. Judge Humphrey was appointed to the bench on October 2, 2007. Prior to his appointment, Judge Humphrey was a partner with Chester Willcox & Saxbe LLP in Columbus, Ohio, practicing in the areas of debtor-creditor law, bankruptcy representation, receivership, and litigation, representing a broad spectrum of clients, including individual debtors, business debtors, secured creditors, unsecured creditors, committees, and purchasers of assets from financial institutions and bankruptcy estates. That representation spanned many industries, including manufacturing, real estate, lodging, retail, construction, restaurant and food service, transportation, and utilities. Judge Humphrey serves on the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the 6th Circuit and is a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, the American Bankruptcy Institute, and the Thomas F. Waldron American Bankruptcy Law Forum. (MRBS Presentation: Ethics Roundtable) Honorable Lucinda Masterton Family Court of Fayette County, Kentucky Lucinda Masterton completed her undergraduate work at Northwestern University, and graduated from West Virginia University College of Law. She moved to Lexington in 1983, and engaged in a general practice of law, focusing on family mediation and bankruptcy. She was a Bankruptcy Trustee for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and administered almost 10,000 bankruptcy cases before leaving that office. Certified as a mediator by the Mediation Center of Kentucky in 1999, she was an active mediator in family court, both in motion hour at court, and at the Mediation Center, amassing thousands of hours of mediation experience. She was an Advanced Practitioner member of the Association for Conflict Resolution. She was also a facilitator for the Cooperative Parenting and Divorce program offered by the Mediation Center. In 2001, she received the Law Day Award from the Mediation Center. She was also a mediation trainer, teaching and coaching in the general and divorce mediation courses offered by the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts. Judge Masterton was elected as the Family Court Judge for the Fifth Division in Fayette County, and took the bench in January, 2007. In addition to her duties as a Family Court Judge, Judge Masterton was the judge for family drug court and juvenile drug court, and is the lead judge for the Fayette County Model Court project. She serves on numerous boards and committees, including Greenhouse 17 (formerly the
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