Robert C. Stackhouse

ROBERT C. STACKHOUSE,
born Medford, New Jersey, October 10, 1923

Admitted to bar:
• 1950, Virginia and Supreme Court of Virginia 1954
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
• 1965, U.S. Supreme Court

Education:
• Haverford College and College of William & Mary (A.B., 1949)
• College of William & Mary (J.D., 1951)

Author:
• “What Constitutes Doing Business in the State of Virginia”
• William & Mary Review of Virginia Law, 1950
• Commissioner in Chancery
for the Circuit Court of the City of Norfolk, 1956-

Member, Board of Directors:
• Director, Heritage Bank & Trust, 1976-1994
• President, Alumni Association of Marshall-Wythe School of Law,
College of William & Mary, 1974-1975 Member, Board of Trustees,
Westminster Canterbury of Virginia 1984-1992

• Chairman Westminster Canterbury Foundation 1995
• Chairman, Board of Trustees,
Marshall-Wythe Law School Foundation 1982-1984

Member:
• Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia and American Bar Associations
• Virginia State Bar
• Virginia Lawyers Association
• American Judicature Society

Mr. Stackhouse commenced practice in 1951 with a firm engaged primarily in trial work. In 1956 he formed the partnership of Kramer & Stackhouse which was the forerunner of the present firm. He was one of the charter members and founders of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.

Mr. Stackhouse has represented the Eastern District of Virginia at the National Association of Bankruptcy Judges for approximately ten years. His primary expertise in the law during the last decade has been in corporate, corporate reorganization, commercial and banking law fields.

He has lectured on the Bankruptcy Act of 1976 and in other fields of insolvency law. He is often associated in Chapter XI corporate reorganizations and other insolvency matters. In addition, he has had extensive experience in litigation.