Ms. Melissa Jane Davey
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Melissa J. Davey</strong> is a Standing chapter 13 trustee in the Northern District of Georgia for the Atlanta and Newnan divisions based in Atlanta, effective Oct. 1, 2017. Her office administers thousands of Chapter 13 cases assigned to Hon. Paul M. Baisier and Hon. Lisa Ritchey Craig. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Davey was in private practice in Atlanta as a member of Stites & Harbison, PLLC in its Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy Group, where she focused primarily on representing institutional lenders and other creditors in bankruptcy and consumer and commercial litigation. Prior to joining Stites and Harbison, she was a staff attorney for a chapter 13 trustee in the Northern District of Georgia for more than six years. She has also previously represented debtors in bankruptcy. Ms. Davey the vice president and Annual Meeting program chair for the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees (NACTT). She also serves on the Bench and Bar Committee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia and previously chaired the committee. Ms. Davey is a Master in the W. Homer Drake, Jr. Georgia Bankruptcy American Inn of Court. In the past, she has served as president/officer for the Bankruptcy Section of the Atlanta Bar Association, as co-chair of the Georgia Network of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, as president of the Metro Atlanta Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney Group and as an advisory board member for ABI’s Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop. Ms. Davey received her B.A. in political science and French <em>magna cum laude</em> with honors and her J.D. from the Emory University School of Law in 2003. During her junior year of undergrad, she studied at the Sorbonne and the Institut Catholique in Paris.</p>
Melissa J. Davey