Ms. Ramona D. Elliott

Ramona D. Elliott is general counsel and deputy director for the U.S. Department of Justice's Executive Office for U.S. Trustees in Washington, D.C., where she is responsible for formulating the U.S. Trustee Program's national legal policies and strategies before bankruptcy courts and through the appellate pro- cess, implementing program legal priorities and resolving significant legal issues. She leads the USTP's efforts to enforce the management accountability provisions of the Bankruptcy Code in chapter 11 cases, including the development and implementation of guidelines governing the review of attorneys' fees in mega cases. Ms. Elliott also directs the USTP's national consumer protection legal activities, including as a member of the intergovernmental team responsible for negotiating the historic national mortgage settlement reached in 2012 among the Department of Justice, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 49 states and the nation's five largest mortgage servicers that addressed mortgage servic- ing, foreclosure and bankruptcy abuses. In directing the USTP's appellate practice, she and her staff are involved in 120 appeals annually to advance consistency and uniformity in the interpretation and ap- plication of bankruptcy law, and she has worked with the Department's Office of the Solicitor General in more than two dozen cases before the Supreme Court since 2008. She has also served as counsel for Bankruptcy and Redress for the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection and, prior to entering public service, was an associate at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston in Baltimore, where she concentrated her practice in the areas of bankruptcy reorganizations and workouts. In 2011, Ms. Elliott received the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service. She received her J.D. from Emory University School of Law, where she served as the recent-developments editor of the Bankruptcy De- velopments Journal.

Ramona D. Elliott