Mr. Craig M. Geno

Craig M. Geno is a member of the Law Offices of Geno and Steiskal, PLLC in Ridgeland, Miss., and his bankruptcy practice consists of representation of secured and unsecured creditors, unsecured creditors’ committees, chapter 11 debtors-in-possession and bankruptcy trustees in chapter 7 and 11 cases. Additionally, he has served as a trustee in chapter 11 cases. Mr. Geno is also a subchapter V trustee in the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi and the Western District of Tennessee. In 2023, he and others were awarded the 2023 Asset Sale of the Year by ABI’s Asset Sales Committee, and he and others were awarded the Mid-Size Company Turnaround/Transaction of the Year award by Turnaround Management Association. Mr. Geno is Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy by the American Board of Certification, served on its board of directors for eight years and served as its national president and as its chairman. He served the Mississippi State Bar as Special Counsel for the Committee on Character and Fitness from 1984-87, and he served as a member of the Committee on Character and Fitness from 1987-2013. Mr. Geno is a member of the American Bar Association, Mississippi State Bar Association (president of the Law Office Economics Section, 1993-94), Mississippi Bar Foundation, Federal Bar Association (Southern District vice president, 1989-90, Mississippi Chapter) and the Mississippi Bankruptcy Conference (president, 2001). He is also an ABI member and participated on its Subchapter V Task Force, and he is a member of the Business Bankruptcy Subcommittee of the Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association, the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees and the Turnaround Management Association. In addition, he is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, a Fellow of the Mississippi Bar Foundation, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a charter member of the Best Attorneys of America, and listed as a “Top Fifty Attorney” with Super Lawyers. Mr. Geno received his undergraduate degree in 1975 and his J.D. in 1978 from the University of Mississippi, during which time he served on the law school’s Moot Court Board.