PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
May 19, 2003
STEVEN
J. KATZMAN APPOINTED U.S. TRUSTEE FOR
SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA, HAWAII,
GUAM, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Steven J. Katzman has been appointed United
States Trustee for the Southern District of California and
the Districts of Hawaii, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands
(Region 15), it was announced today by Lawrence Friedman,
Director of the Executive Office for United States Trustees.
Katzman's appointment takes effect today.
"I am very pleased to welcome Steven Katzman to the U.S.
Trustee Program," Friedman stated. "He is not only an experienced
bankruptcy practitioner, but also a seasoned federal prosecutor,
making him well-suited to carry out the U.S. Trustee Program's
responsibility of working to protect the integrity of the
bankruptcy system."
"Under the leadership of Director Friedman, I am eager to
work with the talented professionals in the San Diego and
Hawaii offices, and use my experience prosecuting bankruptcy
fraud cases to implement the Attorney General's mandate to
combat fraud and abuse in the bankruptcy system," Katzman
stated.
Immediately before his appointment as U.S. Trustee, Katzman
was senior insolvency and federal litigation counsel for the
Orange County, Calif., law firm of Albert, Weiland & Golden
LLP. He represented secured and unsecured creditors, debtors,
creditors' committees, and trustees in all aspects of complex
bankruptcy cases and proceedings and federal commercial litigation,
while also supervising associates, paralegals, and other staff
in litigation.
Before entering private practice, Katzman served for eight
years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Special Assistant
U.S. Attorney. From 1991 through 1996 he prosecuted bankruptcy
fraud and related crimes, including mail fraud, wire fraud,
and bank fraud, in Los Angeles for the office of the U.S.
Attorney for the Central District of California. From 1996
through 1999, he established and managed a new office of the
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, in Youngstown.
Prior to his service with the U.S. Attorneys' offices, he
was an associate with the Newport Beach, Calif., office of
Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, and a law clerk for
Bankruptcy Judge John E. Ryan in the Central District of California.
Katzman received his law degree in 1987 from the University
of California School of Law at Davis and his undergraduate
degree in 1984 from the University of California at Santa
Cruz.
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
15 is headquartered in San Diego with an additional office
in Honolulu.
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