DANVILLE, VA, May 05, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Michael Regan has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
With more than fifty years of experience to his credit, Michael Patrick Regan, Esq, has found success as an attorney in general practice of state and federal civil and criminal law since 1990, increasingly concentrating on fixing personal and business finances, primarily through Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcies at the Law Offices of Michael P. Regan, PC in Danville, Virginia. Before working his way up to the post of the General Counsel of Dan River Inc. in 1989, he joined that Fortune 500 manufacturing company in 1975 as an assistant general counsel and was promoted to Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary in 1981. Prior to these appointments, he was a Corporate Attorney (serving a brief stint as Acting General Counsel) at Mohasco Corporation, a Fortune 500 manufacturing company in Amsterdam, New York, an Assistant District Attorney of Albany County in Albany, New York, an associate legal attorney at Medwin and McMahon in Albany, New York and the President of the Town of Coeymans Republican Club. A lifelong Roman Catholic and conservative republican, who treasures truth life, liberty, property and America's constitutional values, in 1968 he ran as the Republican candidate for the Albany County, New York Treasurer. Early in his career, Mr. Regan built his skills as an Attorney Trainee at the Office of the New York State Secretary of State's Bureau of Corporations in Albany, New York.
Before embarking on his professional path, Mr. Regan was born at Bay Ridge Hospital in Brooklyn New York on George Washington's birthday, grew up in Connecticut and New York State at 16 different residences, was fortunate to attend a top New York State high school, in Delmar, New York and pursued a higher education at the University of Notre Dame made possible by his personal savings, his work and his student loans, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1963. He continued his academic efforts working his way through law school as a United States Post Office employee and member of the Hod Carriers Union earning a Bachelor of Laws at the Albany Law School of Union University in Albany, New York in 1967. Subsequently, he received a Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree from his law school in 1968.
He is licensed to practice law by the New York State Bar and the Virginia State Bar and also admitted to practice before the United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Virginia, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York and the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. With a plethora of knowledge at his disposal gained in successful takeover defense of Dan River Inc. and affiliates, Mr. Regan authored the article, "Broadening the Role of Public Company Employees Through Employer Stock Ownership" in 1989 and was a guest speaker at the ESOP Association's 1990 Convention.
Civically engaged as well, from 1976 to 1989 Mr. Regan served as the Secretary of the DanPac Political Action Committee and as an occasional seminar presenter. Also at this time, he was lead horn for the Tightsqueeze Philharmonic Band as both a saxophonist and a clarinetist from 1981 to 2008, served as a Rotary Musician, formed the Dance Notes™ as an expandable trio in 1986, joined the 17 member Starmont Swing Band in 1992, played lead clarinet and alto saxophone in over a dozen locally produced Broadway musicals and sat in at night on clarinet in New York City, Chicago and San Francisco while on business trips, most notably with trumpeters Doc Cheatham and Roy Eldridge. A founding member of the Danville Symphony Orchestra in 1991, he remained active as Principal Clarinet with the Danville Symphony Orchestra until 2005 and later with the Philharmonia of Greensboro in North Carolina until 2018. Since that time he has continued as leader and musician for the Dance Notes™ and the Starmont Swing Band which now has over 125 big band arrangements and an engaging veteran male dance band and solo concert vocalist, with deep roots as a singer in Hawaii who also plays trombone in the big band.
Michael first began his musical pursuits as a teenager playing clarinet and tenor saxophone, studying in Albany New York under the tutelage of Paul Holtz who was principal clarinet for the Albany Symphony Orchestra, playing jazz saxophone on a daily basis at home and in school practice rooms and attending the Amherst Summer Music Camp in Amherest, Massachusetts to study tenor saxophone, where he was selected to play for a U.S. State Department sponsored overseas youth Band "goodwill" concert tour. Unbeknown to him at this time, his teacher had told his parents that young Michael would become a professional musician on the road. And in fact as a teenager he formed two local jazz groups – dixieland jazz (playing clarinet) and modern jazz (playing alto saxophone), formed the Rhythmaires™ which played for dances and wedding receptions in Albany County and Saratoga County, New York and played the alto saxophone solo, "Nola" at his high school graduation school orchestra concert. After graduating from high school at age eighteen, he backed up a popular rock and roll group six nights a week at a night club in Albany, New York, but decided to follow in his father's footsteps and go to the University of Notre Dame in the fall rather than to continue working as a musician and to go to New York City in October of 1959 for his audition on tenor saxophone with the popular Noro Morales Orchestra.
As a further testament to his success and longevity in the legal field, Mr. Regan was named an AV-Rated lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell in 1990. In 1991, he began his continuing service as a United States Criminal Justice Act Panel Attorney for the Danville Federal District Court. He also accepted the Paul Harris Fellowship from the Rotary Club of Danville and a "Well Done" award for his effective leadership services to his local church and was honored by Strathmore's WHO's WHO.
Beginning in the early 1980s and over the years Mr. Regan has also been selected for inclusion in multiple editions of Who's Who in Finance and Business, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in the World and Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America and maintains affiliation with the Republican Party of Virginia, the Republican National Committee, the Danville Bar Association, the Virginia Bar Association and The Danville Golf Club. He and his wife Susan have been married for over 45 years aand are the proud parents of three sons.
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