Mr. Gary A. Norton

Gary A. Norton is a member attorney in the firm of Whitfield and Eddy, P.L.C. in Des Moines, Iowa, and has chaired the firm's Business and Banking Committee. He has been a member of the Iowa bar since 1984, practicing extensively in the areas of bankruptcy and creditor/debtor relations, commercial law and commercial litigation. Mr. Norton is a frequent speaker before attorney and business groups on various topics involving commercial and bankruptcy law and has served as an adjunct professor at Drake Law School, teaching secured transactions. He has served several times as a member and past chair of the Commercial and Bankruptcy Law Section Council of the Iowa State Bar Association, most recently in 2014. He also chaired that Section's Study Committee on the 1998 Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, and was heavily involved in implementing the passage of Revised UCC Article 9 in Iowa. He continues to be a consultant to the Iowa legislature on legislation and other matters related to commercial law. Mr. Norton is a member of the ABA Section on Business Law, has been an ABI member since 1986 and is currently a member of the advisory board for ABI's Midwestern Bank- ruptcy Institute. He is also is a former law clerk to Hon. Richard Stageman, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Iowa from 1984-85. Mr. Norton received his B.S. with honors in 1975 from Iowa State University and his J.D. with honors in 1984 from Washburn University School of Law, where he was a member of the Washburn Law Journal.