Admitted
1979, Missouri and U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1993, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 2003, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circ
Law School
Washington University, J.D., 1979
Law School Graduation Year
1979
College
Princeton University; University of Missouri at Columbia, A.B., cum laude, 1976
Memberships
Jasper County and Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Associations; The Missouri Bar; American Bankruptcy Institute.
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa. Law Clerk to Hon. Ross T. Roberts, U.S. District Judge, Western District of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, 1983-1985. Author: Termination and Transfer of Dealer, Sales Representative and Franchise Agreements in a Bankruptcy Context: An Overview of 11 USC 362 and 365, Michigan I.C.L.E., University of Michigan, 1993; Recent Changes in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure & Current Proposals for Further Changes - The Non-Discovery Rules, University of Missouri Press, 1992; Subject-Matter and In Personam Jurisdiction in the Western District of Missouri - New Twists and Old Turns, University of Missouri Press, 1991; Foreclosure Sales of Real Property as Fraudulent Transfers under the Bankruptcy Code: An Overview of Durrett and its Progeny, University of Missouri Press, 1989. Co-Author: With D. Lander, Business Reorganization, N.B.I. Press, 1987.