Admitted
1978, Michigan; 1980, U.S. District Court, Western and Eastern Districts of Michigan; 1983, U.S. Supreme Court; 1984, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 2000, Indiana and U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana; 2001, U.S. Court
Law School
Wayne State University, J.D., cum laude, 1978
Law School Graduation Year
1978
College
Michigan State University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1975
Memberships
Kalamazoo County, Federal (Member, Bankruptcy Section) and American (Member, Sections on: Business Law; Litigation; Committees on Commercial and Banking Litigation, and Bankruptcy and Insolvency) Bar Associations; State Bar of Michigan (Member, Sections on: Business Law; Litigation); American Bankruptcy Institute; Robert Morris Associates.
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi. Member, 1976-1977; Note and Comment Editor, 1977-1978, Wayne Law Review. Author: Assignment of Rents in Michigan: Cash Collateral Issues in Bankruptcy, Federal Bar Association (1993). Speaker: Fundamentals of Bankruptcy, Kellogg National Credit Department (1999, 1998, 1990); Lessons Learned P & U National Credit Symposium (1998); Are Preferential Transfers Dead in the Sixth Circuit? Federal Bar Association (1997); Strategic Issues in Banking, RMA Spring Study Conference (1995); Bankruptcy Problems and Solutions, ICLE (1993); Current Chapter 11 Issues, Federal Bar Associations (1992); Remedies of Lenders and Landowners in Commercial and Residential Transaction, ICLE (1990); Commentator, Michigan's Ultimate Trial Notebook, ICLE (1999, 1997, 1993); Art of Cross Examination, ICLE (1996).