The following members of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) were elected to leadership positions as officers and directors during ABI’s 2019 Annual Spring Meeting, held April 11-14 in Washington, D.C.:

• Alane A. Becket of Becket & Lee, LLP (Malvern, Pa.) becomes ABI President for a one-year term, succeeding Ted Gavin of Gavin/Solmonese LLC (Wilmington, Del.) who now assumes the position of Immediate Past President.
• Hon. Barbara J. Houser (N.D. Tex., Dallas), formerly ABI’s Vice President-Research Grants, was named President-Elect and will become President in April 2020.
• Retired Bankruptcy Judge Eugene R. Wedoff (Chicago) succeeds Jeffrey N. Pomerantz of Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP (Los Angeles) as Chairman of the Board for a one-year term.
• Hon. Michelle Harner (D. Md.; Baltimore) was elected to serve a two-year term succeeding Hon. Barbara Houser as ABI Vice President-Research Grants.
• Doug Lutz of Frost Brown Todd LLC (Cincinnati) was elected to a full term as Vice President-Education.
• Hon. Bruce A. Harwood (D. N.H.; Concord) was elected to serve as Secretary.
• Soneet R. Kapila of KapilaMukamal, LLP (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Eve H. Karasik of Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Brill LLP (Los Angeles) were elected as at-large members of the Executive Committee.

Fourteen ABI members were elected to their first terms on the ABI Board of Directors:

• Hon. Janet S. Baer (N.D. Ill.; Chicago)
• Patrick Clisham of Engelman Berger, PC (Phoenix)
• Eric Fromme of Theodora Oringher PC (Costa Mesa, Calif.)
• Paul Hage of of Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss (Southfield, Mich.)
• Jennifer Kimble of Lowenstein Sandler LLP (New York)
• John Lucas of Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones (Los Angeles)
• Eric Madden of Reid Collins & Tsai LLP (Dallas)
• Jennifer McLemore of Williams Mullens (Richmond, Va.)
• Jennifer Meyerowitz of Summit Investment Management LLC (Atlanta)
• Steve Spitzer of AlixPartners, LLP (New York)
• James E. Van Horn of Barnes & Thornburg (Washington, D.C.)
• Eric E. Walker of Perkins Coie (Chicago)
• Donald Workman of BakerHostetler (Washington, D.C.)
• Clifford A. Zucker of FTI Consulting (New York)

There are 60 members on the ABI Board of Directors. The complete list of directors and officers is available at http://www.abi.org/about-us/board-directors.