Mrs. Madison M Tucker
Jones Walker LLP
Madison Tucker is an associate in Jones Walker's Litigation Practice Group. Madison’s practice focuses primarily on the areas of bankruptcy and creditor and debtor rights. She represents, debtors, Unsecured Creditors Committees, secured and unsecured creditors in all types of bankruptcy cases.
Madison is a graduate of Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where she received her juris doctor degree, cum laude. She also earned a diploma in comparative law and received CALI awards for immigration law, conflict of laws, and legal research and writing.
Ms. Rachel Thyre Vogeltanz
Attorney
The Law Office of Rachel Thyre Vogeltanz, LLC
http://rachel.law
Rachel Thyre Vogeltanz graduated second in her law school class at the University of California at Davis. After passing the California bar exam, she started out in a boutique bankruptcy firm where she learned on the job, doing both consumer and commercial work. She soon returned to her home state of Louisiana, where she first worked as a criminal law clerk at the Louisiana Supreme Court, and since then has primarily represented bankruptcy clients. Board-certified in consumer bankruptcy by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization and the American Board of Certification, she is a member of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys and the National Association of Consumer Advocates. Rachel is a solo practitioner in Covington.
Mr. David F Waguespack
Attorney
Carver, Darden, Koretzky, Tessier, Finn, Blossman & Areaux, LLC
David F. Waguespack is managing partner of Carver Darden. He has represented lenders, debtors, creditor committees, investors, officers and directors, and other parties in complex Chapter 11 cases and related litigation and has served as a Chapter 11 trustee. Mr. Waguespack is recognized for his work in bankruptcy and restructuring in Best Lawyers, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (Tier 1), Louisiana Super Lawyers (Top 50) , and the Legal 500. He is board certified in business bankruptcy by the American Board of Certification and by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization. He has chaired several subcommittees of the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the American Bar Association, including Courts and Administration, Corporate Governance, Limited Liability Companies, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Mr. Waguespack served as an adjunct professor of business law at Tulane University for 20 years. Mr. Waguespack graduated from Rhodes College in 1988 with the John Henry Davis Award for the outstanding History major and from Tulane University Law School in 1991 as an Associate Editor of the Tulane Law Review and member of the Order of the Coif.
Judge Stephen D. Wheelis
Judge
United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Louisiana
http://www.lawb.uscourts.gov
Stephen D. Wheelis was appointed by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on April 25, 2019 to serve as a Bankruptcy Judge for the U. S. Bankruptcy Court, W. D. of Louisiana at Alexandria and Monroe. Prior to his appointment, he was a shareholder of Wheelis & Rozanski, APLC, in Alexandria for over 20 years and initially practiced as a partner with Provosty, Sadler & deLaunay for 14 years.
His practice included representation of creditors and trustees in all bankruptcy chapters, banking, business & commercial law, litigation & appeals. He actively practiced bankruptcy law throughout all Districts of Louisiana and in many other states, pro hac vice.
He is a Board Certified Business Bankruptcy Specialist, certified by the Louisiana Supreme Court and the American Board of Certification since January 1, 1997. He served from 2011-2019 on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Certification, the Standards and Faculty Committees. He has been a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute for more than 20 years. He served as a member of the LSBA Bankruptcy Law Advisory Commission, 1995 - 1998 and 2018-2019, and chaired the LSBA Board of Legal Specialization from 2009-2010. He served as an Assistant Bar Examiner for Code III from 2005-2019 and held memberships in the Louisiana Bankers Association, serving on the Bank Counsel Committee, as well as the Louisiana State, American and Alexandria Bar Associations.
On December 3, 2021, He was appointed to a 3 year term as the 5th Circuit representative on the Bankruptcy Judges Advisory Group for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. He is currently a member of the Crossroads American Inns of Court, The Judge Jerry A. Brown Louisiana Bankruptcy Inn of Court, the Federal Bar Association, The National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, serving as Chair of the NextGeneration Committee, and an Associate Member of NACTT.
He appeared consecutively in the annual editions of Louisiana Super Lawyers, Business Bankruptcy/Creditor Rights, from 2007-2019. He previously served as an adjunct professor for paralegal studies at Northwestern State University and Louisiana College and taught courses for the American Institute of Banking.
Judge Wheelis received his J.D. Degree in 1985 from Tulane University School of Law and his B.A. in Legal Studies from Northeast Louisiana University (now ULM) in 1981.
Ronda Winnecour
Chapter 13 Trustee
Western District of Pennsylvania
Ronda Winnecour was appointed Chapter 13 Standing Trustee for the Western District of Pennsylvania in October of 1999. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University School of Law, she has practiced law since 1979. Prior to appointment as Trustee, she served as an Assistant District Attorney for Allegheny Count from 1979-1989 and as the Allegheny County Juvenile Court Master- presiding over thousands of delinquency matters- from 1989-1999.
During her tenure as Trustee, Ronda has participated in or chaired hundreds of programs on Chapter 13 bankruptcy including chairing the Eighteenth Annual Allegheny County Bar Association Bankruptcy Symposium in December of 2005. She has served two terms as Chair of the Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section of the Allegheny County Bar Association; is a member of the Erie Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Women’s Bar of Western Pennsylvania and is a member of the Women in the Law Committee. She is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute. In June 2011, Ronda became a faculty member of the Advanced Consumer Practice Institute which provides litigation training, nationwide, for bankruptcy practitioners.
Currently, Ronda is the Chair of the Due Process Committee of the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees, serves as in-house counsel to the association and sits on the Outreach, Legislative, Mortgage and Acceptance and Inclusion Committees. She is a former member of the Board of Directors. Recently, Ronda assisted the American Bankruptcy Institute in providing national training concerning Chapter 12 (family farmers) and the preparation and presentation of Master Classes in Chapter 7, 12 and 13 bankruptcy cases.
In the fall of 2020, Ronda Winnecour, became a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.
