Amelia joined Stoll Keenon Ogden’s Lexington office as Counsel to the Firm in 2020, following a career including law practice, nonprofit administration, and banking administration. She belongs to the Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring and Business Litigation practice groups.
Thoughtful in her approach to service, Amelia develops strategies to help clients feel confident about working through difficult financial and legal situations. She takes time to listen to clients and understand their perspectives, and she tends to case details with the same great care.
Amelia offers a wide variety of professional experience to any engagement. Prior to becoming part of the SKO team, Amelia engaged in private law practice focused in bankruptcy, debtor/creditor relations, and civil litigation, and she served as Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Tracey N. Wise, Chief Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Amelia was also a vice president and senior trust officer at a large regional bank, where she was involved in estate and trust planning, investments, and banking administration.
An active community volunteer, Amelia has significant experience with nonprofit management and board governance, honed through her years of service with organizations such as the Junior League of Lexington and the Fayette County Bar Association. She also served as Executive Director of the Kentucky Bar Foundation and IOLTA Fund, the statewide charitable arm of the Kentucky Bar Association.
For her many accomplishments, Amelia has earned a Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished℠ Peer-Review Rating and was named Outstanding Young Lawyer by the Fayette County Bar Association, among other distinctions.
Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring: Amelia offers skilled guidance to all types of constituencies in insolvency situations. She has represented business and individual debtors, and also creditors, in chapter 7, 11, 12, and 13 bankruptcy cases. She has provided counsel to clients in reorganizations, liquidations, and out-of-court workouts, and her business clients have included marinas, trucking companies, coal companies, a gas jobber, a convenience store operator, cattle stockyards, a clothing retailer, commercial real estate companies, and a specialty shipping company. Combined with her training as a mediator, these experiences make her a strong asset in debtor-creditor relations matters.
Business Litigation: While Amelia has training in civil mediation, she is also prepared to help clients with highly intricate civil litigation disputes both in and outside the realm of bankruptcy. She has experience in adversary proceedings related to bankruptcy cases, as well as in state court litigation. She joins a team of trial attorneys at SKO that have earned the firm recognition by Benchmark Litigation as a leading litigation firm in Kentucky.
