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Hon. Peggy Hunt

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Hon. Peggy Hunt

Peggy Hunt is a partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Salt Lake City and has had extensive judicial clerkships. She has been working in the area of bankruptcy and receivership law for over 25 years, co-chairs Dorsey?s Bankruptcy Practice Group and is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy. Ms.Hunt serves as a chapter 7 panel trustee for the District of Utah and has represented distressed companies, creditors, equity-holders and chapter 11 and 7 trustees in all aspects of the workout, restructuring and liquidating process, including in related litigation. She serves as lead counsel to trustees and equity\nreceivers appointed in some of the largest Ponzi and securities fraud cases in Utah, including Castle Arch Real Estate Investment Company, LLC, National Note of Utah, LC and Waterford Funding, LLC. She also serves as the court-appointed receiver for Traffic Monsoon, LLC. Ms. Hunt regularly speaks on topics involving bankruptcy and receivership law. She is a member of the Bankruptcy Court Local Rules Committee and she is a contributing author for the Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide. Ms. Hunt\nwas appointed by Gov. Gary Herbert as a Commissioner on the Utah Securities Commission. She is also a member of the Utah Bar Foundation Board, the Government Relations Committee of the Federal Bar Association, and is a past-president of the Utah Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Ms. Hunt co-founded the Utah Women?s Giving Circle of the Community Foundation of Utah and is a former president of Women Lawyers of Utah and of the Utah Women?s Forum. SHe currently sits on the Fed-\neral Bar Association?s Task Force on Diversity. Ms. Hunt is admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts, Utah and the Third, Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits. She is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for 2008-17 in Creditor-Debtor Rights Law. Ms.Hunt received her B.A. in economics and political science from Washington and Jefferson College and her J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she was also head notes and comments\neditor of its law review.