FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UST FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1995 (202) 616-2765 TDD (202) 514-1888 ELLEN VERGOS NAMED U.S. TRUSTEE FOR REGION 8 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Attorney General Janet Reno has appointed Ellen B. Vergos to serve as the United States Trustee to oversee the administration of bankruptcy cases in Kentucky and Tennessee, the Department of Justice announced today. Vergos, who will assume her duties on January 9, has been a partner at the Memphis, Tennessee, firm of Waring Cox since 1984. Vergos practiced extensively in the bankruptcy courts since 1981, representing both debtors and creditors in cases filed under chapters 7, 11, and 13. Her principal office will be in Memphis. She previously worked in Nashville where she was an associate with the law firm of Farris, Warfield & Kanaday. Vergos received her Juris Doctor in 1976 from Memphis State School of Law and her bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University in 1972. Upon graduation from law school, she served for one year as a Law Clerk in the United States District Court in Memphis. (MORE) -2- Vergos served as president of the Tennessee Lawyers' Association for Women and is on the Board of the Memphis Bar Association and the MidSouth Commercial Law Institute. She also is an Assistant Bar Examiner on the Tennessee Board of Law examiners and a member of the Hearing Committee for the Board of Professional Responsibility. She also is a member of the Shelby County Health Care Board, on the YWCA Board of Directors and is actively involved in many other civic and charitable organizations. Vergos is married and has three children. As trustee, Vergos will oversee the administration of bankruptcy cases in Region 8, which encompasses the federal judicial districts of Kentucky and Tennessee. ### 95-010 In 1980, to join the firm of Waring Cox, and in 1984 she was made partner. In 1980, she returned to Memphis to join the firm of Waring Cox, and in 1984 she was made partner.