The American Bankruptcy Institute presented Dan Dooley of J.S. Held LLC (Chicago) with its highest membership award, the ABI Annual Service Award, at the 2026 Annual Spring Meeting. The Service Award is presented to the ABI member whose contributions over the past year have been extraordinary, as determined by ABI’s advisory board of past presidents. An ABI member since 2000, Dooley’s leadership as sponsorship chair for both the Central States Bankruptcy Workshop and Midwestern Bankruptcy Institute advisory boards has resulted in more than $500,000 raised in the past two years. His energy, dedication and strategic acumen continue to serve as a driving force to attract and compel sponsors to commit to ABI programming. Dooley has also served on ABI’s board of directors, is a frequent speaker at ABI events, and co-authored ABI’s The Chief Restructuring Officer’s Guide to Bankruptcy: Views from Leading Insolvency Professionals.
Dooley is a senior managing director in J.S. Held’s strategic advisory group. Prior to J.S. Held’s acquisition last year of MorrisAnderson, he served as MorrisAnderson’s principal and CEO. Dooley has successfully managed projects and assumed such interim management positions as CRO, CEO, COO and CFO for publicly and privately owned companies in the manufacturing, distribution and service sectors. Prior to joining MorrisAnderson in 1997, he served as an executive with several Fortune 500 manufacturers in both general-management and financial-management capacities, including Illinois Tool Works, an industrial manufacturer, and Allied Signal, an automotive electronics and aerospace manufacturer. In 2011, Dooley was honored with the Turnaround Management Association’s “Turnaround of the Year – Small Company” award for Analytics, an independent research laboratory in St. Louis, Mo. He has served on the board of directors and been a key advisor to corporations and nonprofit organizations.
Dooley is a Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) and a former board member and vice president of the International Turnaround Management Association. He earned his B.B.A. in 1977 and his M.B.A. in finance in 1980 from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
