June 26, 2024-The American College of Bankruptcy and the American College of Bankruptcy Foundation (“ACB” and “ACB Foundation”) are pleased to announce that Alexandra “CC” Schnapp, will become the ACB and ACB Foundation Executive Director effective July 1, 2024, upon the retirement of long-time Executive Director, Shari Bedker. CC can be reached at ccschnapp@amercol.org. Please note the ACB and ACB Foundation will have a new mailing address as listed below for your records. 

ACB Chair, Charles Beckham, Jr. shared, “While the ACB College and Foundation sadly say farewell to Shari Bedker, we warmly welcome CC Schnapp to be our new Executive

Director. CC is well prepared to hit the ground running and guide the College and Foundation to new heights.”

Following is a short biography of CC and her stellar background. Alexandra CC Schnapp (known by all as “CC”) lives in Atlanta, Georgia where she has served as law clerk to Hon. Wendy Hagenau, Bankruptcy Judge for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia, from 2018-2024, and for Hon. C. Ray Mullins from 2011-2018. Through her time at the Court, she encountered a wide array of consumer and business bankruptcy matters. She received her JD from Emory University School of Law, where she was the Executive Administrative Editor of the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal and interned for Hon. Mary Grace Diehl at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Before pursuing law, CC gained valuable experience as a litigation legal assistant at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. She graduated from Middlebury College, cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies.

CC has been an active member of the legal community, having served as Chair of the Bench and Bar Committee of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia (2016-2023), Chair of the Atlanta Bar Association Bankruptcy Section (2023-2024), Chair of the IWIRC Georgia Network (2015-2016) and member of the International Board of Directors of IWIRC (218-2021), and Chair of the ABI Ethics and Professional

Compensation Committee (2019-21). She also served as coordinator for the

Atlanta Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) program (for which she

received the inaugural CARE Program Chapter of the Year Award for coordinating

the Atlanta Chapter), and an adviser for the Emory Bankruptcy Developments

Journal Notes and Comments Advisory Committee. She participated in the

National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges’ NextGen Program in 2017, and she was

recognized as an IWIRC Rising Star Semifinalist in 2016 and as one of ABI’s 40

Under 40 honorees in 2019.

CC is an avid reader and has channeled her love of literature into being a member of the Everybody Wins! Atlanta Board of Directors and reading mentor. She and her family love to travel the globe and explore the National Parks. While not working or on the

go, she enjoys paddle boarding, baking, coffee, and biking with her two sons

and husband. She is excited to take on this new challenge!

About the American College of Bankruptcy The American College of Bankruptcy was founded in 1989 and is an honorary public service association of U.S. and international insolvency professionals who are invited to join as Fellows based on a proven record of the highest standards of expertise, leadership, integrity, professionalism, scholarship, and service to the bankruptcy and insolvency practice and to their communities. The College facilitates the effective domestic and cross-border application of bankruptcy and insolvency laws and the administration of justice in the courts through, among other activities, conducting professional educational programs, sponsoring the publication of scholarly reports, and maintaining the National Bankruptcy Archives. The College also funds projects that improve the quality of bankruptcy law and practice, as well as access to justice, in particular through grants by its affiliated Foundation to fund pro bono legal service programs and other activities consistent with the College’s goals. Underlying all of its work, the College is dedicated to enhancing professionalism, scholarship, and service in bankruptcy and insolvency law and practice, and to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion within the organization and across the insolvency profession. Visit www.amercol.org for additional information.