Daniel J. Casamatta

Daniel J. Casamatta is the Acting U.S. Trustee for Region 13 in Kansas City, Mo., which includes the judicial districts in Arkansas, Missouri and Nebraska. He was sworn in on Jan. 1, 2015. Mr. Casamatta has served as the Assistant U.S. Trustee in the Kansas City, Missouri office of the U.S. Trustee Program(USTP) since 2008. Prior to that appointment, he served as Assistant U.S. Trustee in Grand Rapids, Mich.,for 18 years, was an attorney advisor in the Cleveland USTP office for three years, and for periods of time was also the Acting Assistant U.S. Trustee in Indianapolis and the Acting Chief of the USTP’s NationalBankruptcy Training Institute, located in the Department of Justice’s National Advocacy Center in Columbia, S.C. Mr. Casamatta chairs the U.S. Trustee Program’s nine-member SBRA Working Group, which assisted in implementing the SBRA for the Program and which advises local USTP offices about policies and procedures to follow in SBRA cases. In 2018, he was given the USTP Director’s Award for DistinguishedService (the Program’s highest award). Before joining the USTP, he spent five years in private practice inCleveland with an emphasis on bankruptcy and commercial litigation. Mr. Casamatta received his J.D. in1982 from Case Western University School of Law.