Leadership Kentucky Elects Attorney Chrisandrea Turner to Board of Directors

LEXINGTON, Ky. —Leadership Kentucky recently elected Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorney Chrisandrea Turner to its board of directors. Turner will serve a three-year term. She is a graduate of Leadership Kentucky’s Class of 2013.

Turner is a Member (Partner) of Stites & Harbison based in the firm’s Lexington office. She is a bankruptcy and creditors’ rights litigator focusing on corporate bankruptcy and restructuring and adversary proceeding defense. Turner regularly represents lenders, trade creditors, lessors and lessees, sureties, and large creditors in Chapter 11 matters and complex bankruptcies around the country. Her litigation practice includes mortgage defense, receiverships, avoidance and recovery of preferential and fraudulent transfers under the Bankruptcy Code and the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act, and nondischargeability of bankruptcy debt. A member of the firm’s Manufacturing Industry Team, Turner advises the firm’s manufacturing clients on bankruptcy and creditor-oriented matters.

Besides Leadership Kentucky, Turner stays active in a variety of other local organizations. Currently she serves on the executive board of directors of Women Leading Kentucky and is instrumental in organizing Lexington’s Signature Chefs Auction, the largest fundraiser for the March of Dimes.

Leadership Kentucky, created in 1984 as a non-profit educational organization, brings together a selected group of people that possess a broad variety of leadership abilities, career accomplishments, and volunteer activities to gain insight into complex issues facing the state. Its goal is to prepare participants to take an active role in advancing the state for the common good.