June 26, 2024 -The International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (“IWIRC”) is pleased to announce that Alexandra “CC” Schnapp, will become IWIRC’s Administrative Director effective July 1, 2024, upon the retirement of long-time Administrative Director, Shari Bedker. CC can be reached at cschnapp@iwirc.com. Please note IWIRC will have a new mailing address and phone number as listed below for your records. 

IWIRC Chair, Karen Fellowes KC, shared, "On behalf of IWIRC, we sincerely thank Shari Bedker for her many years of outstanding dedication and service to the organization, and we extend best wishes for a happy and well-deserved retirement.  We know our organization is in good hands with her excellent and able successor, CC Schnapp, a long-time IWIRC member and former IWIRC Board member."  

Following is a short biography of CC and her stellar background. Alexandra CC Schnapp (known by all as “CC”) lives in Atlanta, Georgia where she has served as law clerk to Hon. Wendy Hagenau, Bankruptcy Judge for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia, from 2018-2024, and for Hon. C. Ray Mullins from 2011-2018. Through her time at the Court, she encountered a wide array of consumer and business bankruptcy matters. She received her JD from Emory University School of Law, where she was the Executive Administrative Editor of the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal and interned for Hon. Mary Grace Diehl at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Before pursuing law, CC gained valuable experience as a litigation legal assistant at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. She graduated from Middlebury College, cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies.

CC has been an active member of the legal community, having served as Chair of the Bench and Bar Committee of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia (2016-2023), Chair of the Atlanta Bar Association Bankruptcy Section (2023-2024), Chair of the IWIRC Georgia Network (2015-2016) and member of the International Board of Directors of IWIRC (2018-2021), and Chair of the ABI Ethics and Professional

Compensation Committee (2019-21). She also served as coordinator for the

Atlanta Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) program (for which she

received the inaugural CARE Program Chapter of the Year Award for coordinating

the Atlanta Chapter), and an adviser for the Emory Bankruptcy Developments

Journal Notes and Comments Advisory Committee. She participated in the

National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges’ NextGen Program in 2017, and she was

recognized as an IWIRC Rising Star Semifinalist in 2016 and as one of ABI’s 40

Under 40 honorees in 2019.

CC is an avid reader and has channeled her love of literature into being a member of the Everybody Wins! Atlanta Board of Directors and reading mentor. She and her family love to travel the globe and explore the National Parks. While not on the working or on

the go, she enjoys paddle boarding, baking, coffee, and biking with her two

sons and husband. She is excited to take on this new challenge!



About International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC): IWIRC is committed to the connection, promotion, and growth of women in insolvency and restructuring professions worldwide. Since 1994, IWIRC has been connecting women worldwide through a global membership of more than 2,400 attorneys, bankers, corporate-turnaround professionals, financial advisors, and other restructuring practitioners. The organization provides its members with relationship-building, educational, career enhancement, and promotional opportunities. Be Informed. Be Inspired. Be Connected. For more information, visit us at www.iwirc.com.