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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 2, 2005

Contact: Eric Gerber
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HOUSTON, Feb. 2 – The American College of Bankruptcy and the Library of Congress have tapped University of Houston Law Center Dean Nancy B. Rapoport for two distinguished posts.

In March, Rapoport will be inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, where she will join distinguished bankruptcy professionals who set standards of achievement for others in the insolvency community.

“I’m thrilled to be inducted as a fellow of this superb organization, and I look forward to working with some truly legendary people,” Rapoport said.

Rapoport also has been selected to serve on the Library of Congress’ Advisory Committee for its project “The Birth of the Dot-Com Era.” The project will preserve at-risk digital materials from the American business culture involving the early years of the commercialization of the Internet.

Rapoport has been dean at the UH Law Center since 2000. She is the co-editor of the book “Enron: Corporate Fiascos and Their Implications.”

She received her undergraduate degree from Rice University and her J.D. from Stanford Law School. She clerked for the Honorable Joseph T. Sneed on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then practiced law (primarily bankruptcy law) with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. She started her academic career at Ohio State University College of Law in 1991, and she moved from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor to Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professor in 1998 (just as she left Ohio State to become Dean and Professor at University of Nebraska College of Law). She served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1998-2000. Her specialties are bankruptcy ethics and law and popular culture.

Rapoport also has been appointed recently to serve on the city of Houston’s Pension Governance Advisory Committee and on the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Attorney Discipline.

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