Ms. Tara Twomey

Tara Twomey is the Former Director of the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees in Washington, D.C. She previously was executive director of the National Consumer Bankruptcy Rights Center and Of Counsel to the National Consumer Law Center in Carmel, Calif. She previously focused on bankruptcy and consumer credit issues, with an emphasis on home mortgage origination and servicing and, more recently, student loans. She has taught numerous programs in these areas, served as an expert witness, and testified before Congress on mortgage-servicing problems. Ms. Twomey is a contributing author of several books published by the National Consumer Law Center, including Mortgage Servicing and Loan Modifications (2019) and Home Foreclosures (2019). She has been a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference, a contributing author to the Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide, and served as a commissioner for the ABI?s Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy. Ms. Twomey has been a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School and Boston College Law School. In addition, she is a former clinical instructor at the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, where her practice focused, in part, on sustainable homeownership for low- and moderate-income homeowners. This practice area included foreclosure prevention and chapter 13 bankruptcy. Ms. Twomey received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego and her J.D. summa cum laude from Boston College Law School, after which she clerked for Chief Justice Herbert P. Wilkins of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Subsequently, Ms. Twomey received a two-year Skadden Fellowship to work at the Legal Services Center.

Tara Twomey