Board of Directors
Secretary
Jonice Gray Tucker
Jonice Gray Tucker, a co-founder of FLF, is a native Washingtonian whose mother, aunt, and grandmother were teachers in the District of Columbia’s public schools. Ms. Tucker is a partner with BuckleySandler LLP where she represents corporate and individual clients in federal and state enforcement agency investigations, examinations, and litigation as well as private civil litigation. Ms. Tucker has extensive experience representing financial institutions in matters relating to federal and state fair lending laws, mortgage fraud, unfair and deceptive trade practices, and consumer privacy laws. She also has particular expertise in loan servicing, having represented several major servicers in landmark litigation and enforcement actions.
Ms. Tucker has published articles on a wide variety of issues involving financial institutions. In addition, she is a frequent speaker on such legal issues, including best practices in mortgage loan servicing, “fair servicing” in the context of loss mitigation, secondary market liability, mortgage fraud, and dispute resolution techniques. During her legal career, Ms. Tucker has witnessed the significant and long-standing problems that can arise when young people fail to learn basic financial management skills. In 2004, Ms. Tucker and Andrew Sandler founded FLF because of their strong belief in the importance of teaching financial literacy to our youngest citizens. Ms. Tucker, a proponent of public education, believes that financial management skills are the key to economic empowerment, particularly for residents of underserved communities, and should be taught in every public school.
Prior to joining BuckleySandler at its inception in 2009, Ms. Tucker practiced with the Litigation Group at Skadden Arps, where she specialized in Consumer Financial Services. Before entering private practice, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Marvin J. Garbis of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Ms. Tucker received her J.D. from Yale Law School and her B.A. from the University of Virginia(Phi Beta Kappa).
