Ellen P. Ray

Ellen P. Ray is a sole practitioner with Ellen P. Ray, Esq., Main Street Law Offices in Richmond Va., and has focused on consumer bankruptcy representation in chapter 7 and 13 matters since 1996. Before that, she was the attorney for the Richmond City Department of Social Services for two years and had worked in the field of domestic relations and guardian ad litem representation of children since graduating from law school. Ms. Ray has handled, sometimes with the assistance of an associate, more than 5,700 consumer bankruptcy cases since 1996. She is admitted to practice in the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and in all courts in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Ms. Ray is a member of the Virginia State Bar, ABI, Richmond Bar Association and the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees (NACTT), and she has been a member of National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA) and National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees (NABT) in past years. She received her B.A. in history and political science in 1984 from North Texas State University (now University of North Texas), then attended several semesters at the College of William Mary doing post-graduate work while working for Legislative Services at the Virginia State Capital before entering law school in the fall of 1987. She received her J.D. from Marshall Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary in 1990.