Committee Welcomes Its Two Newest Co-Chairs
Karen Cordry is bankruptcy and special-issues counsel for the National Association of Attorneys General in Washington, D.C. She serves as a resource person to the states for issues relating to the effects of bankruptcy on attorneys general activities. She also provides support for the states on bankruptcy filings by tobacco companies, of which there have been six to date. Ms. Cordry conducts an annual seminar on bankruptcy topics, works with state and local contacts involved with bankruptcy issues and writes a monthly bankruptcy bulletin on recent cases of interest to government counsel. She also assists states to present property damage claims in asbestos cases, maintaining liaison with securities fraud litigators and serving as a representative of the states on the Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee. Ms. Cordry also conducts an annual seminar on state defensive litigation to assist the Offices of the Attorneys General in dealing with suits brought against the states. She previously worked for the National Labor Relations Board, both as a field attorney in Detroit and in the Office of Appeals, Appellate Court Section and Contempt Litigation Section in Washington, D.C. She obtained her B.S. in Biochemistry at Michigan State University in 1973, her J.D. from Wayne State University in 1977 and her LL.M. from George Washington University in 1987.
John D. McMickle is a partner in Winston & Strawn's federal governmental relations and regulatory affairs practice group in its Washington, D.C. office, where he represents clients before Congress and administrative agencies. His clients include financial services companies and associations, pharmaceutical manufacturers, tax-exempt bond issuers and the association of qui tam plaintiff attorneys. Mr. McMickle serves firm clients with interests in health care, tax, bankruptcy, international trade, tort reform and intellectual property. Before joining Winston & Strawn, he served as counsel to Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In this capacity, he advised the chairman on bankruptcy policy, telecommunications, health care fraud and abuse, the False Claims Act, judicial nominations and the administration of federal courts. He has also served as a litigation director for the National Law Center for Children and Families. He was the primary staff draftsman for PL 109-8 and the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. Mr. McMickle received a B.A. in political science, magna cum laude from the University of Tennessee in 1989 and a J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law in 1994. Mr. McMickle is a co-author of the Bankruptcy Code Manual, a legal guide to bankruptcy law published by Thomson Publishing.