Sally McDonald Henry, Esq.

Prof. Sally M. Henry is the John E. Krahmer Endowed Professor of Banking and Commercial Law at the Texas Tech School of Law in Lubbock, Texas. She is a 2022 recipient of the Texas Tech University Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest award given by Texas Tech University for teaching. Moreover, she has been designated “professor of the year” multiple times by the Texas Tech Hispanic Law Students Association and the Texas Tech Black Law Students Association. Before joining academia, Prof. Henry was a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, where she represented a diverse group of clients, including debtors-in-possession, secured and unsecured credi- tors, financially troubled companies and chapter 11 trustees, as well as entities that acquire financially distressed companies. She has spoken on restructuring issues throughout the world, including in South America and Europe. Her pro bono work has included asylum cases, public housing cases, wage-theft cases and debtor/creditor work. She won a New York City-wide award from the Legal Aid Society for her pro bono work. Prof. Henry is the author or co-author of various articles on acquisitions of the as- sets of secured transactions, troubled companies, municipal bankruptcies, debtor/creditor concerns of officers and directors, cross-border restructurings, security interests, the absolute priority rule and other bankruptcy-related issues, and she is the editor of each annual edition of the Portable Bankruptcy Code and Rules (Business Law Section, ABA) and co-author of Ordin on Contesting Confirmation (Wolters Kluwer, 1998), updated semi-annually. She received her B.A. from Duke University and her J.D. from New York University School of Law.