PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
January 9, 2004
ILENE
LASHINSKY TO SERVE AS U.S. TRUSTEE
IN
NORTHWEST FOR INTERIM PERIOD
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Lawrence Friedman, Director of the Executive Office for United
States Trustees, announced today that Ilene Lashinsky will serve as United States Trustee for
Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Alaska (Region 18) for an interim period effective
January 2, 2004, due to the retirement of United States Trustee Diane Tebelius. Lashinsky is also
the United States Trustee for Arizona (Region 14).
Immediately before her appointment as Region 14 U.S. Trustee on November 18, 2002,
Lashinsky was of counsel to the Scottsdale, Ariz., firm of Hymson & Goldstein P.C., where her
practice focused on representing creditors and debtors in complex commercial bankruptcy
matters and commercial litigation. For the previous 17 years, she was a partner at Davis & Lowe
P.C. in Phoenix. During a leave from that firm in 1998 and 1999, she served as resident
bankruptcy advisor to the CFED-USAID Macedonia Commercial Law Project, assisting in
workouts of major financially distressed Macedonian businesses and advising ministry
representatives regarding the government’s role in the transition to a free market economy.
Before joining Davis & Lowe P.C., Lashinsky practiced commercial and bankruptcy law
with Leslie L. Miller P.C. and with Streich, Lang, Weeks, Cardon & French. She has also served
as Director of Continuing Legal Education for the State Bar of Arizona, where she helped design
and develop legal education curricula and material, and as an adjunct faculty member for Arizona
State University’s Russian and East European Studies Consortium. Lashinsky received her law
degree cum laude in 1972 from Arizona State University College of Law in Tempe, Ariz., and
her undergraduate degree in 1969 from Arizona State University.
The U.S. 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. Region 18 is headquartered in Seattle, with offices in Spokane, Wash.; Portland
and Eugene, Ore.; Great Falls, Mont.; Boise, Idaho; and Anchorage, Alaska.
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