Angela M. Scolforo is the Staff Attorney to Herbert L. Beskin, Chapter 13 Trustee for the Western District of Virginia, where she has worked for 13 years. She has spoken on seminar panels in Virginia and nationally and enjoys learning from and interacting with her peers. Before becoming a Staff Attorney, she represented debtors in consumer bankruptcy cases and many other clients. She also serves as the Town Attorney for Gordonsville, Virginia. She is the mother of four children and six grandchildren. She graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1998, and received a B.A. in English from the College of the Holy Cross in 1987. She is the past Chairman of the Bankruptcy Section of the Virginia State Bar on which she has served from 2009 through 2016.