Frank Childress

Frank Childress Jr. is a shareholder in the Memphis office.  Mr. Childress has extensive experience in the areas of bankruptcy; representing secured and unsecured creditors in reorganization and liquidation cases throughout the United States; representing parties in sales of assets in bankruptcy cases; preference litigation; trustee representation; creditors' rights; loan workouts; bank litigation and secured transaction litigation. Other experience includes real estate litigation (foreclosure and lien litigation); UCC issues; service as receiver and trustee and general commercial litigation.

Professional Honors & Activities

• Listed since 2010 in Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers as a leading bankruptcy litigation attorney in Tennessee
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® since 2001; Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Bankruptcy Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Banking & Finance Litigation 
• Listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers since 2007
• Named to Business Tennessee magazine's "150 Best Lawyers" (2009 – 2010)
• AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Chairman – Attorney General's Advisory Committee of the United States Trustees (1990 – 1994)
• Served as United States Trustee for the Federal Judicial Districts of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island (1991 – 1994)
• Recipient – Award for Distinguished Service (1992)
• Served as United States Trustee for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana and the Central and Southern Districts of Illinois (1989 – 1990)
• Appointed as the first United States Trustee for the Federal Districts of Kentucky and Tennessee (1988 – 1994)
• Served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee (1982 – 1988)
• Member of the Board of Directors and past President of the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute
• Member – American, Tennessee (Chairman – Commercial, Bankruptcy & Banking Section, 1996 – 1997) and Memphis (Past Chair and Director of the Bankruptcy Section) Bar Associations
• Member – American Bankruptcy Institute
• Member – Commercial Law League
• Fellow – Tennessee Bar Foundation
• Board of Directors – Mid South Fair (2006 – present)
• Board of Directors – Porter Leath (2006 – present; Chair, 2010 – 2011)
• Graduate of Memphis Leadership Academy (2005)
• Former Member – Board of Governors, University of Tennessee National Alumni Association
• Member Development Committee – University of Tennessee, Martin (2007 – 2010)
• Past Chair – Bankruptcy Section, Tennessee Bar Association
• Frequent lecturer on bankruptcy law, speaking at seminars sponsored by the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees, Norton Bankruptcy Law Institute, Mid-South Commercial Law Institute, Nashville Bar Association, Chattanooga Bar Association, Memphis Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association and Mississippi Bar Association

Admissions

• Tennessee, 1980

Education

• Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, J.D., 1980, cum laude 
• University of Tennessee at Martin, B.S., 1977, cum laude 
• Completed Program for Senior Managers in Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, 1992