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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
February 10, 2000
KEVYN ORR APPOINTED ACTING DIRECTOR
OF
EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR U.S. TRUSTEES,
NOMINATED FOR POSITION AS DIRECTOR
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Kevyn
D. Orr has been appointed Acting Director of the Executive
Office for United States Trustees (EOUST), effective on Feb.
12, to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of outgoing
EOUST Director Joseph "Jerry" Patchan.
In addition, Orr has been
nominated as Director of the EOUST. Orr has served since 1995
as Deputy Director of the EOUST, which is the Washington,
D.C., office of the United States Trustee Program, an arm
of the Justice Department that supervises the administration
of bankruptcy cases nationwide.
Patchan, who served for five
years as Director, announced Jan. 4 that he would retire Feb.
11 to return to his home in Ohio.
"Under Jerry Patchan's leadership,
the United States Trustee Program has grown into one of the
foremost professional organizations within our nation's unique
bankruptcy system," Orr stated. "I look forward to the opportunity
to continue to be a part of this process."
Before joining the EOUST,
Orr worked with Patchan for four years at the Resolution Trust
Corp. in Washington, D.C., where he was named Assistant General
Counsel for Complex Litigation and Bankruptcy in 1994. Prior
to that, Orr was a partner in the Miami law firm of Stearns,
Weaver, Miller, Wiessler, Alhadeff & Sitterson, and then
a litigator for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. He obtained
his Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School
in 1983.
"I have always relied upon
Kevyn's incisive legal judgment and exceptional management
skills, and I am delighted that he has been appointed as my
successor at the EOUST," Patchan said. "I am confident that
under Kevyn's leadership the Program will rest in skilled
hands and achieve continuing success."
Contact: Jane Limprecht, Public Information
Officer
Executive
Office for United States Trustees
(202)
305-7411
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