Ms. Judy D. Thompson

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Judy D. Thompson</strong> is in private practice at JD Thompson Law in Charlotte, N.C., where she represents lenders, factors, committees of unsecured creditors, trade creditors, franchisors, asset-buyers and some chapter 11 debtors in business bankruptcy cases and workouts throughout the country. In 2010, she withdrew from Poyner Spruill LLP, a large multidisciplinary firm where she organized and chaired its Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Practice Group, in order to concentrate her practice on specific clients and matters. She also continues to have an active commercial and bankruptcy litigation practice, advising lenders on federal consumer law issues in areas such as Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, along with an active and growing mediation practice in North Carolina in state law suits and nationally in bankruptcy litigation. Ms. Thompson is licensed in North Carolina and Texas (inactive) and is past president of the Mecklenburg (Charlotte) County Bar, a member of ABI, a founding member and former chair of International Women’s Insolvency &amp; Restucturing Confederation Carolinas, past councilor of the Bankruptcy Section of the North Carolina Bar Association and past councilor of the State Bar of North Carolina. She has also been listed in <em>The Best Lawyers in America</em> and regularly listed in <em>Super Lawyers</em>. Ms. Thompson is a frequent speaker at the state and national level on bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, workouts and mediation, has contributed numerous articles to creditor- and lender-oriented publications, and is the editor of the ABI publications <em>General Assignments for Benefit of Creditors</em>, <em>Reclamation Manual</em> and <em>Preference Defense Handbook</em>. She received her B.A. from the University of Florida, her M.S. from Florida State University and her J.D. from the University of Houston with honors.</p>