is a partner in the Phoenix office of Jennings Haug Keleher McLeod, LLP. For more than 35 years, his practice has focused principally on the construction industry, representing builders, public and private owners, design professionals, suppliers, sureties and insurers. He represents clients before agencies, mediators, arbitrators, and in state and federal courts, including U.S. bankruptcy courts, throughout the country. He is the Immediate Past Chair of the Fidelity and Surety Law Committee of the American Bar Association, Tort & Insurance Practice Section. Mr. Schexnayder is an editor and author in numerous industry publications, including Surety Aspects of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, American Bar Association (2021) (ed.), Chapter 145 in the New Appleman on Insurance Law Library Edition, and Intersections of Bankruptcy and Construction: Treatment of Executory Construction Contracts and Mechanic's Liens in Bankruptcy, for the Journal of the American College of Construction Lawyers, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Summer 2010). He has spoken before the American College of Construction Lawyers, Surety Claims Institute, American Bar Association, Pearlman Association, Mid-South Commercial Law Institute, National Association of Surety Bond Producers, West Coast Casualty Construction Defect Seminar, the Surety and Fidelity Association of America, and the Arizona State Bar Construction Law Section on surety and construction law subjects. He is a cum laude graduate of Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and a cum laude graduate of Washington University at St. Louis. (03/2022)

was appointed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Arizona effective as of January 18, 2013, and served as Chief Judge from 2014-2017. Judge Collins was the 2023 President of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, is on the 9th Circuit’s Trial Improvement Committee, is on the JCUS’s Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Group, was on the national Board of the American Bankruptcy Institute and is currently a Business Court Representative in the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section. He was a founder of the Arizona Bankruptcy American Inn of Court chapter, served as the board Chair for the Foundation for Senior Living, was on the St. Teresa Parish Finance Committee and Parish Council, received the St. Thomas More Award for the St. Thomas More Society, was named a Significant Sig by the Sigma Chi fraternity and named to the Sigma Chi’s Beta Phi Chapter Hall of Fame. Dan and his wife Dr. Roseanne Collins raised their 5 children in Phoenix, Arizona.