Patricia Cowart

Senior Company Counsel Wells Fargo

Patricia (Trish) Cowart is Senior Company Counsel in the Wealth and Investment Management Litigation Section of the Wells Fargo Legal Department.  Trish has held a number of roles with Wells Fargo including Chief Litigation Counsel and Associate General Counsel responsible for retail brokerage litigation, regulatory, customer complaints, intake and other business projects.  Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Trish was with UBS Financial and before that was a partner in a Florida law firm handling retail brokerage litigation.  Trish is a member of and past Chair of SIFMA’s Arbitration Committee. She currently is serving on the FINRA National Arbitration & Mediation Committee (NAMC).  She also served on FINRA’s Discovery Task Force. She is a past president of the Florida Securities Dealers Association and continues to be actively involved as a Board Member. She received her J.D with honors from the University of Florida where she was Executive Editor of the Law Review.  Her undergraduate degree is from Stetson University.