M. Christine Maggard, Esq.

M. Christine Maggard is a senior associate attorney in the Bankruptcy Division of Brock & Scott, PLLC in Virginia Beach, Va., where, in addition to representing the interests of creditors in bankruptcy, she serves on the firm’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion committee. She is licensed to practice in all state and federal courts within the Commonwealth of Virginia. Ms. Maggard began her legal career at the Office of the Virginia Attorney General in the Division of Debt Collection. With the exception of a stint working in the Office’s Correctional Litigation Section, her practice has focused on debtor/creditor relationships. Ms. Maggaard is a former president of the Virginia Creditors Bar Association and a past seminar chair and past president of the Tidewater Bankruptcy Bar Association, and she serves as the secretary for the Virginia Network of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confed- eration. She also is a member of the American Legal & Financial Network’s Women in Legal Leader- ship’s Social Media and Events Committee, secretary for ALFN’s IDEA Committee, a member of the Virginia State Bar’s Diversity Conference, and an adjunct faculty member for Virginia Commonwealth University’s Paralegal Studies Program. She also serves on a consumer advisory subcommittee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Ms. Maggard is a frequent speaker at semi- nars and conferences regionally and nationally on matters including bankruptcy and diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. She volunteers as a judge for college and high school mock trial competitions and donates her time to provide pro bono legal services in conjunction with the Virginia Equality Bar Association’s Gender Marker Clinic. Ms. Maggard received her undergraduate degree in English and rhetoric and communications studies from the University of Virginia in 1986 and her J.D. from George Mason University School of Law in 1991.