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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1996                           (202) 616-2765
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      JANICE CHENIER TAYLOR NAMED U.S. TRUSTEE FOR REGION 5

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Janice Chenier Taylor has been appointed
U.S. Trustee for Region 5 by Attorney General Janet Reno, the
Department of Justice announced today.
     Taylor, acting U.S. Trustee in New Orleans since January
1995, will oversee the administration of bankruptcy cases in
Louisiana and Mississippi.  Taylor, who joined the U.S. Trustees
in September 1993, assumed the post January 1.
     Taylor, a graduate of the University of Southwestern
Louisiana and Howard University School of Law, worked in the
Internal Revenue Service's Tax Litigation Division in Washington
for one year and was an IRS trial attorney in New Orleans for 10
years.  New Orleans is the principal office for Region 5. 
     She is a past president of the New Orleans Association of
Black Women Attorneys and a member of the Louis Martinet Legal
Society and the American Bar Association.  She serves on the
Metropolitan Advisory Board of the YMCA and is a parliamentarian
of the Crescent City Chapter of Links Inc., an international
women's service organization.
     Taylor and her husband, Judge C. Hearn Taylor, have one
child.
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