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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1994                                     (202) 616-2765
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                     JOSEPH PATCHAN NAMED UST DIRECTOR

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Attorney General Janet Reno has
appointed Joseph Patchan, an attorney with extensive experience
in bankruptcy matters, as the Director of the Executive Office
for United States Trustees, the Department of Justice announced
today.
     Patchan, who begins his duties December 19, has been with
the Resolution Trust Corporation since 1991, most recently
serving in the capacity of Deputy General Counsel. 
     Prior to joining the RTC, he was a partner in the Cleveland
law firm of Baker & Hostetler, where he led the firm's national
bankruptcy work.
     From 1978 through 1991, Patchan was a member of the Advisory
Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference and also
served as a bankruptcy judge.  He was the first chapter 13
trustee appointed in the Northern District of Ohio.
     Patchan, who received his undergraduate degree from Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio, and his law degree from Cleveland
State University Law School, has written and lectured extensively
about bankruptcy law and also was on the faculty for seminars for
bankruptcy judges held at the Federal Judicial Center.      
     He is married and has three children.
     The Executive Office for United States Trustees provides
legal, administrative and management direction and coordination
to the United States Trustees program, which is responsible for
supervising the administration of bankruptcy estates.  
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