Lisa L. Lambert has been appointed by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland as the U.S. Trustee for the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas, known as Region 6. This appointment takes effect today. Lambert succeeds Kevin M. Epstein, who had been serving in an interim capacity and will continue his role as the U.S. Trustee for the Southern and Western Districts of Texas, Region 7.
Lambert began her career with the U.S. Trustee Program (USTP) in 1998 as a trial attorney in Tyler, Texas. Her service with the USTP includes various roles over the years. She spent three years working in New York offices before returning to Texas in 2009 as a trial attorney based in Dallas. Since 2012, she has held the position of Assistant U.S. Trustee overseeing that office.
Beyond her duties at the USTP, Lambert has been active within the Federal Bar Association's bankruptcy section and contributed to legal education by coaching students from Texas Tech University for over ten years in oral advocacy and briefing skills for the Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition.
Her educational background includes a bachelor's degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a law degree from Texas Tech University School of Law. Post-law school, she clerked for Chief Bankruptcy Judge Houston Abel in the Eastern District of Texas and worked at a boutique law firm specializing in bankruptcy.
The announcement was made by The Executive Office for U.S. Trustees.
The mission of the USTP is "to promote the integrity and efficiency of the bankruptcy system for the benefit of all stakeholders – debtors, creditors and the public." The program comprises 21 regions with 89 field offices across the country, supported by an Executive Office located in Washington, D.C.
For more information about the USTP, visit www.justice.gov/ust.