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Randall J. Newsome Oral History collection

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Call Number:
NBA.011
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library
Extent:
77 audiocassette(s)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Randall J. Newsome Oral History Collection, National Bankruptcy Archives, NBA.011, Biddle Law Library, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, PA.
Date:
1993-1998, 2004 (inclusive)
Creator:
Newsome, Randall J. (Randall Jackson) and National Bankruptcy Archives
Form:
Oral histories (literary works) and Audiotapes
Abstract:
Randall J. Newsome (b. 1950) graduated from the University of Cincinnati Law School in 1975. In 1998, Newsome was appointed to the Northern District of California's bankruptcy court, where he became Chief Judge in 2004. Randall Newsome has served as a faculty member for the Federal Judicial Center since 1987. He joined the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges in 1983, serving as President from 1998-1999. He is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. The collection (1993-2004) contains audio cassette tapes of interviews conducted by Newsome with figures in bankruptcy law, including judges, attorneys, and educators.

Randall J. Newsome was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1950. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati Law School in 1975. In 1982, Newsome was appointed judge to the United States Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of Ohio, where he remained until 1988. In 1998, Newsome moved to the Northern District of California's bankruptcy court, where he became Chief Judge in 2004.

Randall Newsome has served as a faculty member for the Federal Judicial Center since 1987. He joined the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges in 1983, serving as President from 1998-1999. He is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.

Newsome has contributed to a number of bankruptcy manuals, including Chapter 11: Theory and Practice and Collier on Bankruptcy. Starting in the early 1990s, Newsome used his position as both scholar and historian of bankruptcy law to interview others in the field, including judges, attorneys, and educators.

The collection (1993-2004) contains audio cassette tapes of interviews conducted by Newsome with figures in bankruptcy law, including judges, attorneys, and educators.

Digital reproductions of these oral histories are available electronically at http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/archives/bankruptcy/digicoll/oralhistories.html.

Received from Randall J. Newsome in October 2006.

Processed and encoded by Jordon Steele, October 2006.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library
Finding Aid Author
Jordon Steele
Finding Aid Date
2006
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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Collection Inventory

Arrangement note

Alphabetical.

Babbit, Roy, 1994 May 3.
Box 1 Object 1
Countryman, Vern, 1995 June 2.
Box 1 Object 2
Coutrakon, Basil H., 1996 October 19.
Box 1 Object 3
Cyr, Conrad, 1994 October 8.
Box 1 Object 4
Danning, Curtis B., 1994 November 3.
Box 1 Object 5
Duberstein, Conrad, 1994 May 4.
Box 1 Object 6
Edwards, Don, 1996 November 19.
Box 1 Object 7
Forman, Leon, 1993 November 17.
Box 1 Object 8
Gross, Jack, 1996 April 23.
Box 1 Object 9
Herzog, Asa, 1993 October 23.
Box 1 Object 10
Horsky, Charles, 1994 May 11.
Box 1 Object 11
Hughes, Robert, 1996 January 20.
Box 1 Object 12
Kahn, A. David, 1994 April 13.
Box 1 Object 13
Kaplan, Jerome, 1994 May 15.
Box 1 Object 14
Kennedy, Frank, 1996 October 17.
Box 1 Object 15
King, Lawrence, 1993 October 19.
Box 1 Object 16
Lee, Joe, 1994 December 30.
Box 1 Object 17
Macey, Morris W., 1994 April 14.
Box 2 Object 1
Miller, Robert, 1998 October 23.
Box 2 Object 2
Morton, Robert, 1998 October 24.
Box 2 Object 3
Nachman, Norman, 1994 December 22.
Box 2 Object 4
Ordin, Robert, 1994 November 5.
Box 2 Object 5
Paskay, Alexander, 1994 April 12 and 1995 October 30 (?).
Box 2 Object 6
Patchan, Joseph, 1993 November 18.
Box 2 Object 7
Palmeri, Victor, 2004 October 26.
Box 2 Object 8
Rosen, Leonard, 1994 May 2.
Box 2 Object 9
Ryan, Edward, 1996 April 22.
Box 2 Object 10
Shapiro, Bernard, 1994 October 30.
Box 2 Object 11
Treister, George, 1994 July 9.
Box 2 Object 12
Trost, J. Ronald, 1994 May 2.
Box 2 Object 13
Watson, Chandler, 1994 October 7.
Box 3 Object 1
Weintraub, Benjamin, 1994 May 3.
Box 3 Object 2
White, Harold F., 1996 October 18.
Box 3 Object 3

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