Tara DePompei

In her role as Senior Vice-President and Senior Fiduciary Officer for Dallas-Fort Worth and North Texas, Tara manages the fiduciary practice and oversees each relationship team to meet the needs of families, their businesses, and their asset protection, tax minimization, and wealth goals. Tara has gained particular expertise engaging families at the intersection of risk, preservation of capital, family governance, and succession planning.

Tara began her legal career at the United States Tax Court and then devoted almost 15 years in private practice in tax planning and litigation with Locke Lord LLP, Meadows Collier Reed Crouch & Ungerman LLP, and Wright Ginsberg Brusilow P.C. Tara comes to Northern Trust, having served three generations of an ultra-high net-worth family leading their family office. She oversaw a private family trust company, a real estate operating company, and an investment company, ensuring legal, operational, and family alignment, while navigating the complex dynamics not uncommon to families with a living and involved wealth generator.

Tara is an active volunteer in her community of North Dallas, having served as President of the National Charity League, Mockingbird Chapter, and Life to Eagle Advisor and Merit Badge Counselor for Boy Scout Troop 412. She has also served in several leadership capacities for Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas and Ursuline Academy of Dallas. She hails from Waukesha, Wisconsin and grew up in a military family.

Tara served as Attorney-Advisor to the Honorable Judge Joel Gerber on the United States Tax Court. She is licensed to practice law in Texas and in front of the United States Tax Court.

Tara graduated with a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Marquette University Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in History from The University of Wisconsin.