Cox named to ABI board

Lynchburg bankruptcy lawyer H. David Cox has been elected to the board of directors of the American Bankruptcy Institute.

An ABI member since 2006, Cox is the education director of ABI’s Consumer Bankruptcy Committee, edited and helped revise ABI’s Consumer Bankruptcy: Fundamentals of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, Fourth Edition, and was a member of ABI’s Consumer Commission Advisory Committee on Case Administration and the Estate, the ABI said in a release.

He will serve a three-year term on the 60-member ABI board.

Cox practices bankruptcy law throughout the Western District of Virginia from offices in Lynchburg, Danville, Harrisonburg, Staunton and Winchester. Prior to entering private practice, he served as a judicial law clerk for the late U.S. Bankruptcy Judge William E. Anderson. Cox is a permanent member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference and a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.

He received his BA from Virginia Tech and his JD in 1995 from the University of Richmond  law school.

ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABI membership includes nearly 11,000 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders, turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals.