Background
Kelley, Jeffrey Wendell was born on June 8, 1949 in Urbana, Illinois, United States. Son of Wendell J. and Evelyn V. (Kimpel) Kelley.
Kelley, Jeffrey Wendell was born on June 8, 1949 in Urbana, Illinois, United States. Son of Wendell J. and Evelyn V. (Kimpel) Kelley.
David Lipscomb College (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1971). Vanderbilt University. University of Illinois (Juris Doctor, 1975).
Worked at Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy (Atlanta, Georgia) specializing in Bankruptcy, Commercial Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1975, Georgia. Phi Delta Phi. Notes and Comments Editor, University of Illinois Law Forum, 1974-1975.
Author: "Section 361," 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993-1994 and 1994-1995, Norton Annual Bankruptcy Law Survey.
Author: "A Rock and a Hard Place, Bankruptcy Waivers in Loan Workouts," American Bar Association Banking Journal, October, 1995. Company-Author: "New Restrictions on the Statutory Employer Rule," 21 Georgia Bar Journal 94.
Member: Atlanta, Federal and American Bar Associations. State Bar of Georgia (Member, Bench and Bar Committee).
Lawyers Club of Atlanta (Member, Rules, Practice and Judiciary Committee).
American Bankruptcy Institute.
Member American Bar Association (litigation committee), American Bankruptcy Institute (member committee), Georgia Bar Association (bench and bar committee 1988), Atlanta Bar Association (chairman law day 1980), Lawyers Club Atlanta (rules and judiciary committee 1995), Federal Bar Association, John E. Cribbett Society.
Married Marsha Lynn Adams, August 21, 1971. Children: Julie M., Anna E., Adam J., Grant W.