Ms. Debra L. Miller

Debra L. Miller is the appointed Standing Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Trustee for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Northern and Northeastern Divisions (Knoxville and Greeneville). She is active in the National Association of Chapter Thirteen Trustees, is a former president of the NACTT and Co-chair of the NACTT's Mortgage Committee. Ms. Miller testified before the Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts of the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, on May 6, 2008, on the subject of "Policing Lenders and Protecting Home-Owners: Is Misconduct in Bankruptcy Fueling the Foreclosure Crisis?" Prior to her appointment in 2000, she served as the staff attorney for Gary D. Boyn, chapter 7 panel trustee at Warrick and Boyn LLP in Elkhart, Ind., and as a law clerk for Hon. Sanford Brook. She also served as a special agent for the U.S. Secret Service in the Cleveland Field Office, where she specialized in credit card and white collar fraud. Ms. Miller received her B.S. in political science from Baldwin Wallace College and her J.D. from Cleveland Marshall College of Law.