FFLA has appointed Raychelle Tasher, assistant U.S. attorney at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, to its board of directors beginning July 1, 2024. She will finish the final year of a three-year term vacated by another board member.
Tasher represents the United States in bankruptcy and civil litigation matters. She was previously an associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP where she represented debtors in complex Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. She also served as a law clerk to Chief Bankruptcy Court Judge Kathy A. Surratt-States for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Tasher earned her law degree from Florida A&M University College of Law. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the ABA Business Bankruptcy Membership, Marketing and Webinar Committee. Tasher also chairs the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for the Bankruptcy Bar Association of the Southern District of Florida and is immediate past chair of the Lawyers Advisory Committee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida. She is incoming vice chair of The Florida Bar’s Federal Court Practice Committee and is a board member for the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Bar Association. For her commitment to public service, Tasher received the National Bar Association Women Lawyers Division “Outstanding Public Service” Award.
