MID-SOUTH COMMERCIAL LAW INSTITUTE FACULTY
ROBERT H. WALDSCHMIDT
ROBERT H. WALDSCHMIDT is a member in the Nashville firm of Howell & Fisher, PLLC. He has been a bankruptcy trustee since 1976, first under the Bankruptcy Act, then as a Chapter 7 panel trustee under the Bankruptcy Code. His practice consists primarily of bankruptcy related matters, either as a trustee/attorney for trustee or debtor/creditor work. He served as trustee in over 50 reported decisions in bankruptcy matters. Mr. Waldschmidt earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1976, after graduating summa cum laude with a B.S. in Mathematics from Hillsdale College in 1973. Mr. Waldschmidt has chaired several legislative committees, appeared numerous times before the Bankruptcy Review Commission, testified before the House Subcommittee on Bankruptcy Reform, served as the President of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees (1998-1999), and participates as a speaker at numerous seminars at a local and national level. He is a former director of the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute. He is also a member of the Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations, the Commercial Law League of America, and the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees. Mr. Waldschmidt co-authored, with Sam Crocker, the article Impact of the 2005 Bankruptcy Amendments on Chapter 7 Trustees, published in Volume 79, Issue 2, 2005 of The American Law Journal, and is a contributing editor of the Recent Case article in NABTalk.
