Tracy Hope Davis

Tracy Hope Davis is the U.S. Trustee for Northern and Eastern California and Nevada (Region 17), based in San Francisco. Prior to her appointment, she served as U.S. Trustee for Region 2 in New York, Connecticut and Vermont. Ms. Davis joined the U.S. Trustee Program in 1997 as a trial attorney before being named as the Assistant U.S. Trustee in the Southern District of New York. She has also served as the Acting Assistant U.S. Trustee in the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn) and the Acting U.S. Trustee for Region 2. During her tenure as a U.S. Trustee, Ms. Davis has been closely involved in a wide range of bankruptcy issues in some of the largest and most complex bankruptcy cases, including Bethlehem Steel, Adelphia Communications, Lehman Brothers, Chrysler Corporation, General Motors, Lyondell, General Growth Properties, Kodak, Dynegy, MF Global, ResCap, American Airlines, Hostess, Hawker Beechcraft and Dewey LLP, among others. In 2019, she received a USTP Director’s Award and she has been nominated for Attorney General’s Awards for her chapter 11 work. As a bankruptcy practitioner and as the U.S. Trustee, Ms. Davis has participated in many panels for national, state and local bar associations, including ABI and the National Bar Association, and she has lectured extensively at the National Advocacy Center on bankruptcy issues. Previously, she practiced bankruptcy law in New York City and clerked for Hon. Cornelius Blackshear (ret.). Ms. Davis received her J.D. from Rutgers Law School and her B.A. from Wells College.