Admitted
1982, Iowa; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth circuit; U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa
Law School
University of Iowa, J.D., with distinction, 1982
Law School Graduation Year
1982
College
Macalester College, B.A., cum laude, 1979
Memberships
Linn County (Co-Chair, Membership Committee, 1993), Iowa State (Chair, Commercial and Bankruptcy Law Council, 1995-1996; Board of Governors, 1996-2000), Federal (Chair, Bankruptcy Section, 1993-1994) and American (Member, Litigation Section) Bar Associations; American Bankruptcy Institute
Biographical
Recipient: Certificate of Merit, Writing Competition, International Association of Insolvency Practitioners (INSOL), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 22, 1989; First Prize, Writing Competition, American Bankruptcy Institute, Washington D.C., May 8, 1989. Managing Editor, Iowa Law Review, Vol. 67, 1981-1982. Law Clerk to: Hon. W. Ward Reynoldson, Chief Justice, Iowa Supreme Court, 1982-1983; Hon. William W. Thinnes, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Northern District of Iowa, 1983-1984. Author: Comment, Toward a Valid Defense Contingent Fee Contract, Vol. 67 Iowa Law Review 373 (1982); Recent Developments, 1984 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, 327; Cancellation of Insurance Bankruptcy Automatic Stay Implications, 59 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 267 (Summer 1985); Of Exclusivity and For Cause: 11 U.S.C. Sec. 1121 (d) Re-examined, 36 Drake Law Review, 533 (Spring 1988); Bankruptcy Code Section 304(b)(3): Other Appropriate Relief for Multinational Bankruptcy, 16 Brooklyn Journal of International Law, 4-79, 1990; Municipal Bankruptcy: The Problem with Chapter 9 Eligibility--A Proposal to Amend 11 U.S.C. §109 (c) (2), 1988, 22 Arizona State Law Journal 625, 1990; On The River of Artificial and Arbitrary Impairment: An Erroneous Analysis, 70. So. Dakota L. Rev. 993 (1994); The Limit and Inconsistency of Application of the Plain Meaning Rule to Selected Provisions of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994, 20 Hamline L Rev. 111 (Fall 1996); Book, Bankruptcy in Iowa, 1992. Lecturer (Bankruptcy), Iowa State Bar Review School, Inc. (January 1989, 1990-1996). Adjunct Professor, (Bankruptcy), University of Iowa College of Law, 1993. Bankruptcy Trustee, Chapter 7, 1990—. Member, Iowa Supreme Court Committee to Monitor and Implement Equality in the Courts Task Force Report, 1995-1997. Fellow: Iowa State Bar Foundation; American College of Bankruptcy.