Jennifer Barker Lyday

Jennifer B. Lyday is a partner at Waldrep Wall Babcock & Bailey PLLC in Winston-Salem, N.C. She has represented secured creditors, distressed businesses, unsecured creditors’ committees and trustees in business bankruptcy cases. Ms. Lyday is currently on the panel of subchapter V chapter 11 trustees for the Middle District of North Carolina. She has served as Secretary of the Bankruptcy Section Council for the North Carolina Bar Association and has also chaired its Communications Committee, which is responsible for a blog for all North Carolina bankruptcy lawyers. Ms. Lyday has presented at many CLE programs sponsored by ABI and the Federal Bar Association, North Carolina Bar Association, International Women’s Insolvency & Reorganization Confederation and the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees. She is a member of the North Carolina State Bar, the North Carolina Bar Association, the Turnaround Management Association, ABI (for which she serves as a Fourth Circuit Volo author) and the International Women’s Insolvency & Reorganization Confederation (IWIRC) Carolinas Network, for which she serves on its Network Board. She also is vice chair of News on the International IWIRC Board. Ms. Lyday was named an ABI “40 Under 40” honoree in 2021 and received the Pro Bono Award for the Bankruptcy Section of the North Carolina Bar Association in 2022. She received her B.A. in 2006 from Wake Forest University and her J.D. in 2009 from the William & Mary School of Law, where she was lead articles editor of the William & Mary Law Journal from 2008-09.