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.