Ms. Charlotte K Ray
Senior Vice President & Trust Counsel
Hancock Whitney Bank
Charlotte K. Ray serves as Senior Vice President and Trust Counsel for Hancock Whitney Bank. She has 43 years of experience in the trust and estate business including 30 years at JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A and its predecessors as Managing Director of JPMorgan Private Bank where she served in various roles including manager of personal trust, trust counsel, regional fiduciary executive and new business review officer supporting J.P. Morgan Trust Company of Delaware. She is a native of Baton Rouge and a graduate of Louisiana State University and the Louisiana State University Law Center. She is an Honor Graduate of the American Bankers Association National Graduate Trust School. She is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, a member and Past President of the Estate and Business Planning Council of Baton Rouge and a member of the Trust Committee of the Louisiana Law Institute.

Ms. Cherish van Mullem
Director, Tax Services
LaPorte CPAs & Business Advisors
Cherish joined LaPorte in 2018 where she provides tax planning, advisory, and compliance services to a variety of clients, with a focus on estate, gift, and succession planning, state and local taxation, and family business tax planning. Cherish is also an adjunct professor at LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center where she teaches Income Tax I.

Cherish began her professional career representing the Internal Revenue Service before the US Tax Court on procedural and tax controversy issues and contributing to the drafting of regulations dealing with tax collection issues. She later worked for a large regional law firm. Cherish’s legal practice consisted of counseling and representing clients on trust and estate planning and administration (successions); federal, state, and international taxation; and entity governance issues.
Cherish has extensive experience assisting a wide variety of nonprofit clients through the lifecycle of their needs from tax exempt status through compliance and operations to dissolution. In addition, she has assisted nonprofit clients with formation, governance, and reinstatement issues.
As a member of the LaPorte Transaction Advisory Services team, Cherish helps partnerships, S corporations and closely held businesses with options on structuring transactions and operations. She also guides her clients on sales and use tax issues.

Cherish received a Master of Laws in Tax from New York University School of Law and a Juris Doctorate and Bachelor of Science in Accounting, both from Louisiana State University.

She is a Certified Public Accountant, Board Certified Estate Planning and Administration Specialist and Board Certified Tax Law Specialist both as Certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization. She is a Former LSBA Tax Section Chair, Tax Specialization Committee Member and a Member of the New Orleans Estate and Business Planning Council. She is also a contributing author for the book “Estate Planning in Louisiana,” 2017–2023. In 2022, she was nominated as a City Business Woman of the Year for Non Profit Organizations.

Mr. J. Benjamin Warren
Warren and Baker LLC
J. Benjamin Warren, Jr. is a Member of the Shreveport law firm of Warren & Baker, LLC. Ben's practice focuses primarily on corporate, partnership and planning areas with an emphasis on federal and state taxation. He has represented a variety of business clients in numerous transactions involving acquisitions, mergers and reorganizations. He has extensive experience with oil and gas transactions. He has successfully represented companies and estates before the various appeals offices of the Internal Revenue Service, the United States Tax Court, U.S. District Court, Court of Federal Claims and other tribunals concerning tax deficiency matters, claims for refund, complex audits and litigation matters. Ben is a frequent lecturer on taxation and planning issues. He has given presentations for the Louisiana State University Law School, Louisiana Bar Association, Louisiana Society of CPAs, the Tax Estate Planning Counsel of Shreveport and other professional and civic organizations. He has been listed in the Woodward/White Publication, The Best Lawyers in America, for tax law since 2006. He has been listed in Super Lawyers® for Louisiana in corporate and tax law since the listing began in 2007. Ben received his undergraduate degree in accounting from Louisiana State University in 1984. He received his law degree from Louisiana State University in 1987. He obtained an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law in 1988. He has been a Board Certified Tax Law Specialist under the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization since 1992. He is licensed to practice in Louisiana and Texas. He is a past Chairman of the Tax Section of the Louisiana State Bar Association. He is a past Chairman of the Tax Law Advisory Commission of the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization of the Louisiana State Bar Association. Ben is a past Chairman of the Examination Committee for the Tax Law Advisory Commission for the Board Certification Exam for Tax Law Specialization. He is also a former President and Board Member of the Tax and Estate Planning Counsel of Shreveport. Ben is a member of the State Bar of Texas (State Bar College status); State Bar of Louisiana and Shreveport Bar Association. He is a member of the Committee of One Hundred for Shreveport-Bossier.

Mr. Joseph T. Wilson
Liskow & Lewis
Joe Wilson is a business and trusts and estates lawyer focusing on real estate, finance, general business, and estate planning and probate matters. Joe represents business owners, real estate developers, lenders, and manufacturing and industrial facilities operators on a multitude of legal and operational issues, including property acquisitions, sales and development, title insurance, corporate structuring and governance, and regulatory compliance. In addition to his corporate representations, Joe has established himself as a leader in the field of private wealth legal services and succession planning. Joe regularly advises corporate fiduciaries, individuals, family offices, and high-net-worth clients on a wide range of estate planning, probate and administration needs, including the drafting and oversight of wills, trusts and family succession plans, the development and implementation of gifting strategies and tax minimization efforts, as well as charitable and for-profit asset acquisitions and divestitures. Clients frequently engage Joe to negotiate, draft, and interpret purchase agreements, leases, operating agreements, wills, trusts, bylaws and other organizational documents, loans, and security agreements. Joe is a state-licensed title insurance agent, issuing title insurance policies through Lewis Title Co., the firm’s in-house title agency.

Joe is a frequent public speaker on trusts and estates and business law topics, focusing his presentations on legal issues that affect the lives and business operations of his clients.

Joe graduated summa cum laude from Louisiana State University’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as a Senior Editor of the Louisiana Law Review. He received the Law Review’s Vinson & Elkins Award for the Best Student Casenote or Comment.

Mr. Marc Winsberg
Winsberg Heidingsfelder & Gamble, LLC
Marc D. Winsberg is a member of the law firm of Winsberg Heidingsfelder & Gamble, LLC, in New Orleans. His practice is primarily devoted to family law. Mr. Winsberg is admitted to practice in Louisiana and California. In 1987, he earned his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Tulane University Law School, where he was Order of the Coif and Notes and Comments Editor for the Tulane Law Review. Since 2003, Mr. Winsberg has been a board-certified family law specialist by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization. He is a frequent lecturer in the area of family law. Since 2007, Mr. Winsberg has been a fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He has been appointed by several courts to serve as a Special Master in divorce related matters.