Take off Your Mask!
Tara Trantham is the Founder and CEO of Rise Legal Team, LLC. Her story of triumph over tragedy is featured on our Youturn Health platform. Tara uses her experience to help the voiceless and is not afraid to tell the hard parts of her mental health crisis. We had her back on the podcast to tell us about her new book and how she continues to expand her tireless efforts to help those hurt by the legal system.
Tara received her B.A. degree in Political Science with a minor in Religious Studies from The University of North Carolina in 1995 where she was involved in various campus organizations. She went on to receive her J.D. degree from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois, where she was ranked in the Top 15% of her class, on the Dean’s List and received the Dean’s Grant Scholarship. She studied International Comparative Law in Norway, was a Student Advisor, and was a member of the Moot Court Health Law Competition Team along with other campus organizations. Tara began her career at AGFA Corporation, Healthcare Division, as an Assistant General Counsel in August 2001. In August 2005, she accepted a position as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel with Sherman Financial Group, LLC/Resurgent Capital Services, LLP. She was Assistant Secretary and Assistant General Counsel at the Security Finance Corporation of Spartanburg from 2009 to 2012. Tara became the Senior Vice President, Secretary, Chief Compliance Officer, and General Counsel of World Acceptance Corporation from 2013 to 2018. Tara served as Chief Legal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer, Secretary, and General Counsel for Heights Finance from 2018 to 2021. Tara was appointed General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer for Omni Financial until December 2021. In February 2022, Tara founded her own fractional general counsel company, Rise Legal Team. Tara is an experienced, detail-oriented corporate lawyer with excellent litigation and management skills and is a driven team leader.
Having over 23 years of experience, Tara is an expert in the financial services industry and specializes in regulatory compliance and risk management, SEC reporting, mergers and acquisitions, and licensing issues. Her expertise led to handling the seminal CID from the CFPB in the installment loan industry resulting in a no-finding. She is a member of the Georgia Bar, and the American Bar Association, and has served on the Board of Directors for American Financial Services Association, Served on the Law Committee with American Financial Services Association (AFSA). Served as Chair of the State and Government Affairs Committee with AFSA. Tara has been very active in her local community as well, serving on the Board of Safe Harbor, the Board of the Greenville Symphony, was a member of the class of 35 Leadership Greenville, Furman Diversity and Inclusion Program, Greenville Professional Women’s Forum, Member of Female Leaders of the Upstate, and spends much of her time volunteering at local organizations.
Tara is married to her husband Jonathan and has one son Christian. She treasures time with her family and loves to watch her son play football. Tara has completed her first book, entitled, “Take Off That Mask, Life Ain’t No Masquerade Ball”, detailing her personal journey from a failed suicide attempt to thriving and living with joy, love, and kindness- release date TBD.