Ramona Elliot

Ramona D. Elliott is the Deputy Director/General Counsel for the United States Department of Justice’s Executive Office for United States Trustees in Washington, D.C.  Ramona is responsible for formulating the United States Trustee Program’s national legal policies and strategies before bankruptcy courts and through the appellate process, implementing the Program’s legal priorities, and resolving significant legal issues in business and consumer cases.  She leads the Program’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.  Ramona also directs the Program’s national consumer protection legal activities, including as a member of the intergovernmental team responsible for negotiating the historic national mortgage settlement reached in early 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 servicing, foreclosure, and bankruptcy abuses.  In addition to her public-sector experience in the insolvency field for more than 20 years, Ramona spent five years in private practice, concentrating in the areas of bankruptcy reorganizations and out of court workouts.