Ms. Melissa Jane Davey

Melissa J. Davey is a standing chapter 13 trustee in the Northern District of Georgia for the Atlanta and Newnan divisions based in Atlanta, effective Oct. 1, 2017. Her office administers thousands of chapter13 cases assigned to Hon. Paul M. Baisier and Hon. Lisa Ritchey Craig. Prior to her appointment, Ms.Davey was in private practice in Atlanta as a member of Stites & Harbison, PLLC in its Creditors? Rights\nand Bankruptcy Group, where she focused primarily on representing institutional lenders and other creditors in bankruptcy and consumer and commercial litigation. Prior to joining Stites and Harbison, she was a staff attorney for a chapter 13 trustee in the Northern District of Georgia for more than six years. She has also previously represented debtors in bankruptcy. Ms. Davey is currently a board member at large for the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees and serves on the Bench and Bar Com-mittee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia, which she previously chaired.She also serves on the advisory board for ABI?s Southeast Bankruptcy Workshop and is a Barrister in the W. Homer Drake, Jr. Georgia Bankruptcy American Inn of Court. In the past, Ms. Davey served as president/officer for the Bankruptcy Section of the Atlanta Bar Association, as co-chair of the Georgia Network of the International Women?s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, and as president of the Metro Atlanta Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney Group. She received her B.A. in political science andFrench magna cum laude with honors and her J.D. from the Emory University School of Law in 2003.During her junior year of undergrad, she studied at the Sorbonne and the Institute Catholique in Paris.

Melissa J. Davey