Taft A. McKinstry is Managing Member of the firm and chair of the firm’s Commercial Law and Bankruptcy, Collections, and Creditors’ Rights Groups. With sophisticated experience built on more than 50 years of practice, Ms. McKinstry is known for finding successful solutions to highly complicated commercial, bankruptcy and litigation matters and effective debt collections and foreclosures.

She represents local and national clients in a variety of industries including insurance, heavy equipment, equine, coal, oil and gas production, retail and e-commerce. Ms. McKinstry’s appellate experience encompasses numerous published opinions, including cases before the Kentucky Supreme Court and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ms. McKinstry’s effective handling of difficult bankruptcy issues is built on her years of experience including her appointment as Bankruptcy Trustee for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and service on the Chapter 7 Trustee Panel for Kentucky’s Eastern District. Ms. McKinstry was inducted as a Fellow into the American College of Bankruptcy in 1994 and has been recognized in the Best Lawyers in America continuously since 1994.

In 2017, Ms. McKinstry was inducted into the University of Kentucky Alumni Hall of Fame. KBA Conference The Hall of Fame was established to acknowledge graduates and long-serving faculty of the college whose extraordinary professional success and contributions, profound positive influence on the College of Law, and high degree of character and integrity are recognized by their peers. Inclusion in the Hall of Fame is the highest honor bestowed by the UK Law Alumni Association.