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Karen A. Giannelli

Karen A. Giannelli, a partner and past chair of the financial restructuring and creditors' rights department at Gibbons in Newark, was recently named vice president of the American College of Bankruptcy. The organization announced its 2020 officers and board of directors earlier this month. Giannelli was the first woman attorney from New Jersey to be elected into the college, according to the announcement. Officers and directors serve two-year terms and are elected at the annual meeting each March. She was one of the founding members of the Gibbons Women's Initiative, and also was a founding member and the first president of the Women in Federal Practice in New Jersey Inc. She was also the first woman elected chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Bankruptcy Law Section. The college funds projects that improve the quality of bankruptcy law and practice, as well as access to justice, including through grants by its affiliated foundation to pro bono legal service programs. It facilitates the effective domestic and cross-border application of bankruptcy and insolvency laws and the administration of justice in the courts through conducting professional educational programs, sponsoring the publication of scholarly reports, and maintaining the National Bankruptcy Archives.