PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate
Release
March 31, 2004
CHARLES
F. McVAY APPOINTED U.S. TRUSTEE
FOR
COLORADO, UTAH, WYOMING
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Charles
F. McVay of Centennial, Colo., has been appointed United States
Trustee for Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming (Region 19), effective
on April 4, 2004. The appointment was announced today by Lawrence
Friedman, Director of the Executive Office for United States
Trustees.
"I am pleased
to welcome Charles McVay to the U.S. Trustee Program," Friedman
stated. "His 14 years of experience as a bankruptcy practitioner,
including significant experience representing bankruptcy trustees
who recover assets for the benefit of creditors, will aid
the Program in carrying out the Attorney General's mandate
to curb fraud and abuse in the bankruptcy system."
"It's an honor to be appointed U.S. Trustee for Colorado,
Utah, and Wyoming," McVay stated. "I look forward to working
with the fine career staff of Region 19, under the leadership
of Director Friedman, to help ensure that bankruptcy cases
are not tainted by fraudulent or abusive conduct."
Immediately prior
to his appointment as U.S. Trustee, McVay was a partner in
the Denver law firm of Gorsuch Kirgis LLP, representing creditors
and bankruptcy trustees in bankruptcy proceedings and related
litigation. Before joining that firm, McVay practiced bankruptcy
law with the law firms Katch, Sender, Wasserman & Jobin,
P.C., in Denver and Cook, Yancey, King & Galloway in Shreveport,
La. He served as a Law Clerk to Chief Bankruptcy Judge Stephen
V. Callaway of the Western District of Louisiana and as a
Staff Attorney for the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal.
McVay received
his law degree in 1987 from Louisiana State University Law
Center in Baton Rouge, La., and his undergraduate degree in
1983 from Louisiana State University. His professional and
community activities include speaking on bankruptcy issues
and coordinating pro bono legal services.
The United States Trustee Program is a component of the Justice
Department that protects the integrity of the bankruptcy system
by overseeing case administration and litigating to enforce
the bankruptcy laws.
The Program has
21 regions and 95 field offices. Region 19 is headquartered
in Denver with additional offices in Salt Lake City and Cheyenne.
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