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Tirzah R. Roussell

Associate

Tirzah R. Roussell’s practice focuses on bankruptcy, restructuring, insolvency, and creditors’ rights matters. She represents debtors, creditors, trustees, and individuals in Chapter 7, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, and Chapter 13 proceedings, advising clients across a wide range of industries, including healthcare, senior housing, agriculture, manufacturing, construction, transportation, retail, and restaurant franchising. Her experience spans both in-court advocacy and strategic counseling, helping clients address financial challenges, protect assets, and pursue practical business solutions.

Tirzah regularly advises clients on bankruptcy and restructuring matters involving business reorganizations, section 363 sales, debtor-in-possession financing, cash collateral issues, disclosure statements, plan confirmation proceedings, assumption motions, non-discharge ability actions, and bankruptcy appeals. She also represents creditors in collections and enforcement matters, including judgment enforcement, loan workouts, collateral protection, garnishments, levies, charging orders, and other remedies under the Uniform Commercial Code and state law. In addition, she counsels businesses on sales and acquisitions occurring outside formal bankruptcy proceedings.

Her experience includes representing debtors, creditors’ committees, and other stakeholders in significant restructuring matters involving multi-entity organizations and regulated industries. Through these engagements, Tirzah has worked with lenders, government agencies, unsecured creditors, trustees, and other interested parties to advance restructuring objectives and facilitate complex transactions. She routinely prepares and argues contested matters, drafts pleadings and restructuring documents, and guides clients through all stages of insolvency proceedings.

Before entering private practice, Tirzah served as a judicial law clerk to Honorable Thad J. Collins, Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Iowa, where she conducted legal research and assisted in preparing opinions, orders, and rulings involving a variety of bankruptcy issues. That experience provides valuable insight into bankruptcy procedure and the practical considerations that affect restructuring and insolvency matters

*Admitted to practice law only in Iowa and Florida; not admitted to practice law in Arizona.

Education

J.D., Drake University Law School, Des Moines, Iowa, 2019
B.S., University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 2015, Political Science

Recognitions

Named to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation-Bankruptcy (2026)

Next Generation Program, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (2024)

The M&A Advisor 18th Annual Turnaround Award – Restructuring of the Year ($10MM–$50MM), QHC Nursing Homes & Assisted Living Centers (2023)

Memberships

International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) – Communications Committee (2026); Midwest
Network Vice Chair (2025–Present) and Events Chair (2022–Present)

American Bankruptcy Institute – Young and New Member Committee Leadership Board & Membership Relations Director,
2024–Present

American Bar Association; Iowa State Bar Association; Florida Bar Association; Polk County Bar Association; Polk County
Women Attorneys; Turnaround Management Association

Chrysalis Foundation – Event Planning Committee.

State Bar Licenses

Iowa, Florida

Court Admissions

U.S. Bankruptcy Ct., N.D of Iowa
U.S. Bankruptcy Ct., S.D of Iowa
U.S. Bankruptcy Ct., District of Nebraska
U.S. District Ct., N.D. of Iowa
U.S. District Ct., S.D. of Iowa
U.S. District Ct., District of Nebraska