KYRA ELIZABETH ANDRASSY received her undergraduate degree in political science from the University of California at San Diego in 1995, and her law degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1998. She was an editor of the Loyola Law Review and the recipient of the American Jurisprudence Book Award in Legal Writing. She served a judicial externship to the Honorable Barry Russell, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California, in Spring 1998 and from September 1998 until September 2000, Ms. Andrassy served a judicial clerkship to the Honorable John E. Ryan, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California and a member of the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. She served as the Program Chair of the Orange County Bar Association, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section in 2003, and as the Section Chair in 2004.  She served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Bar Association's Bankruptcy Ethics Symposium in 2004 and 2005, and was the Program Chair for the 2006 Bankruptcy Ethics Symposium.  Ms. Andrassy currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Orange County Bankruptcy Forum and was recognized as a Southern California Rising Star in 2005 and 2006 by Los Angeles Magazine.