The US Justice Department has appointed as its top bankruptcy watchdog Tara Twomey, a bankruptcy rights expert who has focused on consumer credit issues, mortgage origination, and student loans.
Twomey, who is the executive director of the National Consumer Bankruptcy Rights Center, will start the position on Feb. 27. She will will replace Clifford White, who retired last year after 17 years in the Justice Department’s US Trustee Program.
The US Trustee Program oversees consumer and corporate bankruptcy cases. It appoints court-supervised trustees to liquidate companies that aren’t operating. The office also sets up and appoints members to committees to ...