Office of Research and Planning 
Washington, D.C.

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

April 10, 2006

DIANA ADAMS APPOINTED ACTING U.S. TRUSTEE

FOR NEW YORK, CONNECTICUT, VERMONT

            WASHINGTON, D.C.–Diana Adams has been appointed Acting United States Trustee for New York, Connecticut, and Vermont (Region 2) for an interim period effective on April 7, 2006, the United States Trustee Program announced today. She replaces United States Trustee Deirdre A. Martini, who resigned to return to the private sector.  

            Ms. Adams has served as the Assistant United States Trustee in the U.S. Trustee Program’s Brooklyn office from 2001 to the present, and as an Assistant United States Trustee in the Program’s Manhattan office from 1996 to 2001. Previously, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable Cecilia H. Goetz, Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of New York, and worked in the private practice of law. Ms. Adams received her law degree from New York University School of Law and her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Boston University.

            The U.S. Trustee Program is the 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 2 is headquartered in Manhattan with additional offices in Albany, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Central Islip, Rochester, and Utica, N.Y., and New Haven, Conn.

Contact:          Jane Limprecht, Public Information Officer

                       Executive Office for U.S. Trustees

                       (202) 305-7411

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