Role Distribution in Insolvency Proceedings : U.S.A.

Herbert M. Graves is a member of the firm of Graves & Graves attorneys specializing in bankruptcy and commercial law with offices in Oklahoma City,Norman, and Chickasha, Oklahoma, U.S.A. He is retired from the Department of Justice where he served as the Assistant United States Trustee for the Western District of Oklahoma from 1991 to 2009. He received his Juris Doctorate of law (1969) from the University of Oklahoma where he previously received a B.S. in Zoology (1963). He received a diploma from the United States Army War College in 1983. Mr. Graves is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Oklahoma Bar Association (“OBA”), and the Oklahoma County Bar Association (“OCBA”). He served as Chairperson of the OBA’s Bankruptcy and Reorganization Section from 1987-1988 and as Chairperson of the OCBA’s Bankruptcy and Reorganization Section from 1991-1992. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the OCBA from 1998 to 2002 and as Chairperson of the OCBA’s Continuing Legal Education Committee from 1995 to 2002.