Donna T. Parkinson

Donna T. Parkinson is an attorney with Parkinson Phinney in Sacramento, Calif., and has many years of experience in bankruptcy and commercial insolvency law in both state and federal courts. She has represented multi-state banking entities and large financial institutions, insurance companies as lenders, landlords, trustees, creditors, creditors’ committees, governmental entities and national wholesale companies, as well as individuals, addressing a wide range of complex bankruptcy and commercial insolvency law issues. Recently, she represented the Stockton Police Officers Association and StocktonPolice Managers Association in the chapter 9 bankruptcy case of the City of Stockton. Ms. Parkinson isBoard Certified by the American Board of Certification in both Business Bankruptcy Law and Creditors’Rights Law, and is its current president. She is also certified by the California State Board of LegalSpecialization in bankruptcy law. Ms. Parkinson is rated AV-preeminent by Martindale Hubbell. She is a former chair of the Insolvency Law Committee of the California State Bar and is a past president of the Sacramento Valley Bankruptcy Forum and the Sacramento Valley Receivers Forum, as well as representative to the California Bankruptcy Forum. Ms. Parkinson served as a member of the BankruptcyAttorney Advisory Committee for the Eastern District and on the Attorney Advisory Committee for theEastern District Court, and served two years as an at-large Bar Council member for the SacramentoCounty Bar Association. A frequent lecturer on bankruptcy and insolvency issues, she has been an adjunct professor at the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law teaching advanced bankruptcy law.She also was a member of a panel that presented the bi-annual Ninth Circuit Insolvency Law Update webinars and has written Insolvency Law Committee e-Bulletins summarizing new cases. In addition, she also served multiple terms on the Sacramento County Treasury Oversight Committee and chaired that organization in 2002. Ms. Parkinson is a member of ABI and the Federal Bar Association, and is a founding editor of the Sacramento County Bar Association’s newsletter on Bankruptcy and CommercialLaw Developments. She received her B.A. with honors from California State University in Sacramento and her J.D. in 1986 from the University of California, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif.