The Honorable Eugene R. Wedoff is the Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, in Chicago. He has been serving as a bankruptcy judge in that district for 17 years and is presently presiding over the bankruptcy of United Air Lines and its related entities. Judge Wedoff is a frequent lecturer, having presented papers on a variety of consumer and business issues. In 1995, Judge Wedoff received the Excellence in Education Award from the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. Judge Wedoff drafted the model chapter 13 plan currently used in the Northern District of Illinois.

The Honorable Bruce A. Markell is a United Stated Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Nevada. He came to the bench from the academy; since 1999, he had been the Doris S. and Theodore B. Lee Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he taught Contracts, Commercial Law, Securitization and Bankruptcy. He maintains a position at the Boyd School of Law as a Senior Fellow in Bankruptcy and Commercial Law. Following graduation from law school, he clerked for then-judge Anthony M. Kennedy when Justice Kennedy was a member of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Before becoming an academic in 1990, he was a partner in the Los Angeles office of Sidley & Austin, specializing in workouts and bankruptcy matters. Judge Markell is the author of numerous articles on bankruptcy and commercial law. He is a member of the editorial board of Collier on Bankruptcy, and contributes several chapters to that publication. In 2001, he published a casebook on Contracts, Making and Doing Deals: Contracts in Context, with Professor David Epstein and Dean Lawrence Ponoroff. In 2004, he published Core Concepts of Commercial Law: Past, Present & Future, a commercial law casebook with Professor John Dolan and Dean Larry Ponoroff, and Securitization, Structured Finance and Capital Markets, a set of teaching materials on securitization, with Professors Steven L. Schwarcz and Lissa Broome. This year he published another casebook, Bankruptcy: 21st Century Debtor-Creditor Law, with David Epstein, Steve Nickles and Elizabeth Perris. In 1999 he was elected a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference (where he currently serves on the Executive Committee). In 1997 he was selected as a member of the American Law Institute, and in 2000 he was selected as a member of the International Insolvency Institute and as a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.

Judith Greenstone Miller's practice at Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, PC focuses upon bankruptcy and insolvency, creditors' rights and commercial litigation. Her practice has involved representation of debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, creditors' committees and trustees in bankruptcy proceedings, primarily involving Chapter 11 reorganizations. She also represents parties in litigation in complex commercial disputes. Ms. Miller is a partner of the Firm. Ms. Miller is a member of the Commercial Law League of America and its Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Sections. She serves as Chair of the CLLA National Government Affairs Committee. She has prepared various position papers and testified before the Commission on numerous occasions to address these legislative concerns. She also testified as a witness at the Commission's Plenary Session on Single Asset Real Estate Cases. Ms. Miller has also testified before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law on the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives and the Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts on the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate on recently proposed bankruptcy legislation.

Catherine E. Vance is Vice President of Research and Policy at Development Specialists, Inc., resident in the firm's Columbus, Ohio, office. Ms. Vance has written extensively on matters related to bankruptcy, bankruptcy reform, privacy, and other matters affecting the debtor/creditor relationship and insolvency proceedings. Her recent articles include The Facts & Fiction of Bankruptcy Reform, 1 DEPAUL BUS. & COM. L.J. 361 (2003), co-authored with Paige Barr, and Attorneys and the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2001: Understanding the Imposition of Sanctions against Debtors' Counsel, 106 COM. L.J. 241 (2001). Prior to joining Development Specialists, Inc., Ms. Vance served as the Commercial Law League of America's legal writer and analyst. In this capacity, she acquired a thorough understanding of bankruptcy reform legislation pending in the United States Congress since the late 1990s. Ms. Vance is a regular contributor to the Bankruptcy Yearbook and Almanac, co-authoring the publication's annual legislative update. She also served as Associate Editor for the 94th edition of the National Association of Credit Management's Manual of Credit and Commercial Laws.

Jay L. Welford is a senior bankruptcy partner in the Detroit, Michigan law firm of Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss, P.C. Jay has specialized in the areas of bankruptcy law and creditors' rights for over 22 years, and has represented both creditors and debtors throughout the United States. He is a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy topics for such organizations as the Commercial Law League of America, the Law Education Institute and the National Business Institute. He has also authored numerous articles discussing bankruptcy and creditors' rights issues. He has testified before the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, Washington, D.C., February 20, 1997; before the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, Washington, D.C., May 14, 1997; before the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules, Washington, D.C. January 28, 1999; before the House and Senate Conference Committee on HR 3150, Washington, D.C., September 29, 1998; before the Deputy Economic Advisor to the President Regarding HR 3150, September 29, 1998.

Peter Califano, a partner of Cooper, White & Cooper LLP, focuses his practice on bankruptcy, commercial litigation and mediation, and is the Chair of CWC's Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice Group. His practice involves a broad range of activities on behalf of creditors, creditors' committees and debtors in bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy matters. Mr. Califano has extensive experience in equipment leasing and real estate foreclosure matters. He was the lead attorney on Siemens Credit Corporation v. Allan E. Newlands 905 F.Supp. 757 (N.D. Cal. 1994), a significant case upholding the rights of equipment lessors under Article 2A of the Uniform Commercial Code. He also assisted with the Commercial Law League of America's amicus curiae brief in Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation v. Pamela Hood, U.S. Supreme Court, Case No. 02-1606 (2003), an important case involving the bankruptcy court's jurisdiction. He is currently on the Executive Council for the Bankruptcy Section of the CLLA and is Chair of the CLLA's National Legislative Committee.