Jolene Tanner

Jolene Tanner is an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Tax Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, where she primarily handles bankruptcy tax litigation in the Central District of California. She also serves as the Office’s Criminal Bankruptcy Fraud Referral Coordinator. Ms. Tanner is frequently sought after as a bankruptcy tax expert to present at bar events and to train others, including law students, the IRS and other federal agencies, as well as chapter 7 trustees, chapter 13 trustees, subchapter V trustees, other AUSAs and private practitioners, on important bankruptcy matters. In addition, she has taught multiple courses on bankruptcy-related matters at the National Advocacy Center. Within her of- fice, she takes an active mentorship role and assists in training the externs in the Tax Division. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ms. Tanner was a judicial law clerk for Hon. Mark D. Houle and Hon. Deborah J. Saltzman in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California. She was Judge Houle’s law clerk when he sat pro tem on the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. Ms. Tanner is a Certified Specialist in Bankruptcy Law by the California Board of Legal Specialization, State Bar of California. She was selected by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges as a “Next Generation” attorney in 2020, and she is a 2021 honoree of ABI’s “40 Under 40” program. She received her B.A. cum laude from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her J.D. from Loyola Law School.