Washington, D.C.
Office of Research and Planning
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
January 3, 2002
MARK
H. WEBER APPOINTED ACTING U.S. TRUSTEE FOR
WASHINGTON, OREGON, MONTANA, IDAHO, ALASKA
WASHINGTON,
D.C.-Mark H. Weber has been appointed Acting United States
Trustee for Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Alaska
(Region 18) for an interim period effective on December 29,
2001, Martha Davis, Acting Director of the Executive Office
for United States Trustees, announced today. Weber replaces
Jan S. Ostrovsky, who has joined the Seattle law firm Crocker
Kuno LLC.
Weber
has been the Regional Assistant U.S. Trustee for Region 18,
headquartered in Seattle, since 1992. He served as Acting
U.S. Trustee for the region from 1993 to 1995. Before joining
the United States Trustee Program in 1984, Weber worked for
the Minneapolis firm of Thomson, Lovett, Wahlfors & Moran
Ltd.
Weber
received his law degree from Hamline University School of
Law in St. Paul, Minn., in 1980, and his undergraduate degree
from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., in 1971.
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.
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