Mr. Andrew R. Vara

Andrew R. Vara is the U.S. Trustee for Regions 3 and 9 in Cleveland, which encompass 10 field offices in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. He has worked for the U.S. Department of Justice for 29 years, serving as a trial attorney, Assistant U.S. Trustee in Cleveland and Wilmington, Del., and the acting assistant U.S. Trustee in both the Southern District of New York and Western District of Michigan. Following law school, Mr. Vara clerked for Hon. Laurence Howard, Chief Judge for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Grand Rapids, Mich. He also is a regular faculty member and lecturer at training seminars held at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, S.C. Mr. Vara has been a panelist at numerous ABI conferences, including its Annual Spring Meeting, Winter Leadership Conference, Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop and Central States Bankruptcy Workshop. He was a member of the ABI?s Ethics Task Force and chaired ABI?s Ethics and Professional Compensation Committee. Mr. Vara served as a presenter on U.S. and international insolvency law at forums sponsored by the Commercial Law Development Program in Bahrain and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He received his B.A. magna cum laude in political science from Duke University and his J.D. with honors from The Ohio State University in May 1991, where he was awarded membership in the Order of the Coif.

Andrew R. Vara