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HON. KATHRYN C. FERGUSON graduated from Rutgers University School of Law-Camden, where she served as an associate editor of the Law Journal. Judge Ferguson worked at the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law as a Law Clerk, and then as supervisor of legal research at that office. She clerked for the Honorable Judith H. Wizmur, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge during the 1985-1986 term. Judge Ferguson joined Markowitz and Zindler, a small firm specializing in bankruptcy law in 1986 and became a member of the firm in 1992. She took the bench in 1993. Judge Ferguson has been active in various bar associations, and has served on the Local Rules and Lawyers Advisory Committees for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the District of New Jersey. In addition, she has served as an officer and trustee of the Mercer County Bar Association, as a member of the District VII Fee Arbitration Panel and as vice president of the New Jersey Women in Federal Practice. She currently serves as liaison between the Bankruptcy Court and the Lawyers Advisory Committee. Judge Ferguson has served as a member of the 3rd Circuit's Committee on Technology and Automation, of the CM/ECF Working Group, and the New Jersey Bankruptcy Court's Committee on Information and Technology. She also serves as president of the Trenton Film Society and is a member of a number of cultural and community organizations. HON. MICHAEL B. KAPLAN was appointed as a bankruptcy judge on October 2, 2006, for the District of New Jersey, Trenton Vicinage. Prior to taking the bench, Judge Kaplan served as a Standing Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Trustee. He earned his A.B. degree from Georgetown University and his J.D. degree from Fordham University School of Law. Judge Kaplan is licensed to practice law in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Court of International Trade and various federal district courts. Over the past 20 years, he has spoken to numerous bar associations and business organizations, including: the New Jersey Judicial College, National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees, Turnaround Management Association, NY Institute of Credit, Bloomberg, L.P., Social Security Administration, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, National Business Institute and the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Judge Kaplan teaches as an adjunct professor at the Newark and Camden campuses of Rutgers University School of Law. He has authored several articles relating to bankruptcy issues and is a co-author of West's Consumer Bankruptcy Manual. Judge Kaplan was the recipient of the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees' 2006 Distinguished Service Award and New Jersey State Bar Association's 1999 Legislative Recognition Award. In December of 2009, he was appointed by the Director of Administrative Office of the Courts to a four year term as the 3rd Circuit representative to the Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Group. Judge Kaplan also has served as Mayor and Councilman for the Borough of Norwood, New Jersey, and in 2005, he was a candidate for Bergen County Freeholder. ANDREA DOBIN is chair of the bankruptcy/creditors' rights practice group for the law firm of Sterns & Weinroth, P.C. Ms. Dobin has been a member of the panel of private Chapter 7 Trustees since 1999 and has been representing other Chapter 7 and 11 Trustees for more than 15 years. She also serves as the only Chapter 12 Trustee in the few family farmer bankruptcies filed in the District of New Jersey each year. Ms. Dobin focuses her practice in bankruptcy and insolvency issues. She represents a variety of interested parties in all types of bankruptcy proceedings, including Chapter 7 Trustees, secured creditors in Chapter 13 proceedings, Creditors' Committees in Chapter 11 proceedings, and litigants in adversary proceedings commenced in both Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 proceedings. In addition, Ms. Dobin counsels clients in non-bankruptcy-related business areas usually involving asset acquisition and liquidation. She is a member of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, the New Jersey Bankruptcy Trustee Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, and the Mercer County, New Jersey State, Pennsylvania and American bar associations. Ms. Dobin earned her B.A. degree from Cornell University and her J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. BARRY W. FROST is a partner with the law firm of Teich Groh. Mr. Frost has been an attorney for more than 34 years and practices in the areas of bankruptcy law, collections and commercial litigation. He has been a member of the Panel of Trustees of U.S. Trustee for District of New Jersey since 1979. Mr. Frost earned his B.S. degree from Bradley University and his J.D. degree, with honors, from New York Law School. He is a member of the New Jersey State (chairman, Bankruptcy Law Section, 2005), New York State and American bar associations. NANCY ISAACSON is a partner in the law firm of Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP and a member of the Panel of Chapter 7 Trustees for the Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. Ms. Isaacson concentrates her practice on bankruptcy and creditors' rights law. She also has significant experience in commercial litigation. Ms. Isaacson is a member of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, the Hadassah Attorney's Council and the New Jersey State and Essex County bar associations. She earned her B.A. degree from Rutgers University and her J.D. degree from Seton Hall University School of Law. JAY L. LUBETKIN is a partner in the law firm of Rabinowitz, Lubetkin & Tully, LLC and a Chapter 7 Panel Trustee for the District of New Jersey, Region 3, Newark Vicinage, and a Chapter 11 Trustee by appointment from the U.S. Trustee's Office. In his capacity as Chapter 7 Trustee, he has administered more than 4,000 bankruptcy cases. Mr. Lubetkin concentrates his practice in the representation of all parties in interest in Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases, including the representation of corporate and partnership debtors, individual debtors, Chapter 11 Trustees, secured creditors, official committees, competing plan proponents, landlords, liquidators, and equity interest holders. He also maintains a substantial real estate, commercial litigation, and transactional practice. Mr. Lubetkin has lectured on bankruptcy related matters before the American Bankruptcy Institute, the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and the Essex County Bar Association, has written articles for The Bankruptcy Strategist and the Essex County Bar Association Chronicle, and is a co-author of a chapter in the New Jersey Bankruptcy Manual. He earned his B.S. degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. degree from Emory University School of Law. JOHN M. McDONNELL is a partner in the law firm of Trenk, DiPasquale, Webster, Della Fera & Sodono, P.C., and a current Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Panel Trustee appointed by the U.S. Trustee, for the District of New Jersey, Vicinage of Trenton. Mr. McDonnell concentrates his practice in the areas of bankruptcy and debtor/creditor rights. He has represented Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees, debtors, and creditors since 1990. In addition, Mr. McDonnell served as Chapter 11 Trustee for Belmar, Inc. In 2006, he served as a panel presenter on the issue of means testing at the New Jersey State Bar Association Bankruptcy Bench-Bar Conference. Mr. McDonnell earned his B.A. degree from Kean College of New Jersey, his J.D. degree from Seton Hall University School of Law and his LL.M. from St. John's Law School. STACEY L. MEISEL is a founding member of Becker Meisel LLC and co-chairs the firm's bankruptcy, insolvency and creditors' rights practice group. She represents privately held debtors, Chapter 7 and 11 Trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, equity holders, and other interested parties in bankruptcy and state court proceedings in New Jersey, New York, Delaware and other states. In 1997, Ms. Meisel became the youngest serving member on the New Jersey Panel of Bankruptcy Trustees appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice and is the first African-American woman to serve in this position in New Jersey. She is a co-author of West Publishing's Consumer Bankruptcy Manual (2008 and 2009), which covers a panoply of issues dealt with by attorneys representing debtors and creditors in individual bankruptcy cases. Ms. Meisel often authors articles on complex and developing areas of bankruptcy law for the nation's leading bankruptcy publications and lectures on bankruptcy related topics for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and other organizations. She also serves on the ABI Advisory Board for the Mid Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop. Ms. Meisel is a member of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, the New Jersey Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, the American Bankruptcy Institute, the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, and the New Jersey State, Garden State, Essex County and Federal bar associations. She earned her B.A. degree from Rutgers University and her J.D. degree from Villanova University School of Law. ALBERT RUSSO is the Chapter 13 Standing Trustee administering cases in the Trenton Vicinage of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. He earned his B.S. degree from St. Peter's College and his J.D. degree from Seton Hall University. CATHERINE E. YOUNGMAN has been a partner with Feitlin, Youngman, Karis & Youngman, LLC since its inception. She has been practicing in the area of insolvency since 1994, focusing on debtor and creditors' rights and representing Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 Trustees. In 1999, Ms. Youngman was appointed to the panel of bankruptcy trustees by the U.S. Department of Justice and has served as Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 Trustee in thousands of cases. In her capacity as Trustee, she has overseen the liquidation of publicly traded companies (including Topps Meat and Headliners Entertainment) and privately held companies in diverse industries. Ms. Youngman earned her B.A. and M.P.A. degrees from Syracuse University and her J.D. degree from Seton Hall University. MODERATOR - PETER J. BROEGE is the managing member of the law firm of Broege, Neumann, Fischer & Shaver, LLC, where he specializes in representing clients in matters before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. He regularly appears in Bankruptcy Court in all three vicinages of the District of New Jersey located in Trenton, Newark and Camden. For more than 30 years Mr. Broege has represented debtors, creditors, trustees and committees in proceedings before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. He previously represented the Chapter 13 Standing Trustee in the Trenton and Camden vicinages of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for more than ten years. Mr. Broege has served on the Lawyer's Advisory Committee to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey and also was a court appointed member of the Local Rules Committee for the bankruptcy court in New Jersey. At present, he is a registered mediator for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. In addition to appearing regularly before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey, Mr. Broege has appeared on bankruptcy appeals before the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy laws for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education of the New Jersey State Bar Association as well as for other professional education organizations. Mr. Broege earned his B.A. degree from the University of South Carolina, his M.B.A. degree from Northwestern University and his J.D. degree from Rutgers Law School.
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