Bench & Bar March/April 2025

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organizations. She is former chair of the Kentucky Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Law Section and a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Women Lawyers Association and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation.

Sturgill, Turner, Barker & Moloney, PLLC , is pleased to announce Maureen C. Malles and Andy M. Yocum have been promoted to members of the firm. Malles is a member of Sturgill Turner’s Government & Municipal Law and Healthcare Law Practice Groups, focusing her practice on civil litigation and medical negligence defense. She defends municipalities and other public entities in litigation, includ ing employment and employee discipline, civil rights, and other legal issues they face. She also works with the healthcare law group on insur ance defense litigation and medical malpractice defense, including hospital, clinic and physician practices, and public entities including providers of healthcare services in correctional institu tions. She serves on the marketing committee

HAVE AN ITEM FOR WHO, WHAT, WHEN & WHERE? The Bench & Bar welcomes brief announcements about member placements, promotions, relocations and honors. Notices are printed at no cost and must be submitted by email to Shannon Roberts at sroberts@kybar.org. Digital photos must be a minimum of 300 dpi and two (2) inches tall from top of head to shoulders. There is a $15 fee per photograph. Photo fees

for the Defense Research Institute (DRI) Civil Rights and Govern mental Tort Liability Seminar and is a member of the Leadership Lexington Class of 2024-25. Yocum’s practice focuses on civil litiga tion and insurance defense in the firm’s torts and insurance practice group, and he has a growing practice in estate and trust planning. His experience spans a wide variety of cases, including personal injury defense, commercial automobile defense, premises liability defense, professional liability defense, and defense of civil rights claims against government officials and agencies. He serves on the Fayette County Bar Association Board of Directors.

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Commerce Lexington Inc. has appointed Stites & Harbison, PLLC , attorney Ken Gish , to its board of directors. Commerce Lexington Inc. seeks to promote economic development, job creation and overall business growth in Lex ington and its neighboring communities, while strengthening its existing businesses through the many programs and services that the orga

The Urban County Council has confirmed Stites & Harbison, PLLC , attorney, Chrisandrea L. Turner , as the Greater Lexington Chamber of Commerce Representative to the Ethics Com mission of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. Turner is a member (partner) based in the firm’s Lexington office. She is chair of the firm’s creditors’ rights & bankruptcy ser vice group. Her practice focuses on corporate

nization offers. Gish is a member (partner) of Stites & Harbison based in the firm’s Lexington office. His practice focuses on assisting corporate and institutional clients in meeting sustainability goals through renewable energy purchases. He also advises clients in the energy industry, routinely representing the firm’s utility clients in matters before the Kentucky Public Service Commission, as well as assisting renewable energy developers in all aspects of project development including negotiating offtake agreements, permit ting and financing transactions. He counsels the firm’s clients in all stages of the permitting process from application to appeals before administrative bodies and in state and federal court. He also assists clients in managing regulatory compliance matters arising from federal, state and local laws.

bankruptcy and restructuring and adversary proceeding defense. She regularly represents lenders, trade creditors, lessors and les sees, sureties and large creditors in Chapter 11 matters and complex bankruptcies around the country. Her litigation practice includes receiverships, preferential and fraudulent transfer defense in bank ruptcies, nondischarge of debt adversaries and foreclosure. She also serves clients in the areas of environmental actions, healthcare matters and corporate transactions. Outside of Stites & Harbison, Turner stays active in a variety of professional and community

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