Our Board Members
Iman Zekri, President
Iman Zekri currently serves as President on the Board of Directors for the Association of Family Law Professionals. She is an appellate and family law attorney at Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, P.A., in Fort Myers, Florida. Iman is a native of Southwest Florida and received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Florida Gulf Coast University and her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
She devotes 100% of her practice to marital and family law matters. Helping families in transition, Iman represents individuals in divorces, domestic violence cases, paternity actions, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, and family law appeals.
In 2023 and 2024, Florida Super Lawyers named Iman a Rising Star, and Naples Illustrated named her a Top Lawyer for her work in family law. Iman serves on The Florida Bar’s Student Education and Admissions to the Bar Committee. She is also a member of the Lee County Bar Association, the Collier County Bar Association, and the Calusa Inn of Court.
Joseph Prather, Vice President
Joseph Prather M.S., LMHC, CCMHC is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Florida, and Board Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), who is currently working in private practice at Prather Behavioral Health and Counseling LLC in Cape Coral, Florida. Joseph specializes in working with older children, adolescents, young adults, and their families who are struggling with behavioral issues, emotional regulation, physical and verbal aggression, problematic sexualized behavior, as well as general mental and behavioral health issues.
Joseph is passionate about helping young people and their families make changes in their lives before ending up involved in, or returning to, the justice system. He recently moved from the state of Vermont, where he worked in a community mental health setting and helped those with similar mental and behavioral health needs, as well as a heavy focus on assessing risk of harm to self or others. Joseph graduated from North Fort Myers High School (2006) and lived in Lee County, Florida from 2000-2006. Joseph then served in the United States Army as a Military Police Officer (2007-2011), after which he attended the University of Vermont earning a B.S. in Elementary Education (2014) and an M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (2017).
In addition to serving on the Board for the Association of Family Law Professionals (AFLP), Joseph is a board member for the Family Resource Center (FRC), and hopes to continue bringing positive change to the children and families of the Lee County, Florida community.
Leslea Ellis, Treasurer
Leslea G. Ellis, CPA/CFF, CFE is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the states of Florida and Kentucky. She is also Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). Since 2013, she has been the managing member of Leslea Ellis, LLC, a Fort Myers boutique accounting firm specializing in forensic accounting, litigation support, small business accounting and tax return preparation and consultation.
Leslea is a Kentucky native who moved to southwest Florida in 2004 to work for General Electric Company. Prior to her job at General Electric, she worked for Louisville Gas & Electric Company, a regulated utility in Louisville, KY.
She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Accountancy from the University of Louisville in 1999. In 2002, she became a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Kentucky. After earning a Master of Accounting degree with a concentration in Forensic Accounting from Florida Atlantic University in 2012, she became a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Florida. She earned additional credentials – Certified in Financial Forensics and Certified Fraud Examiner – in 2015 and 2012, respectively.
In addition to serving as the treasurer for the Association of Family Law Professionals (AFLP) since January 2018, Leslea is the past treasurer of Lee County Legal Aid Society (April 2014 to October 2017), an appointee to the Florida Bar Grievance Committee for the Twentieth Judicial Circuit (July 2015 – September 2018) and is currently serving on the Florida Bar Unlicensed Practice of Law Committee for the Twentieth Judicial Circuit (February 2021 to current).
Leslea and her husband, Lawrence Cremia, love being on the water, traveling in their RV, and spending time with their four beloved rescued pets – Bonaparte, Scarlett, Bingo and Pussy Galore.
Trisch Garthoeffner, Secretary
Trisch is the founder and managing member of Anchor Business Valuations & Financial Services, LLC (ABVFS). She has over 20 years of experience in providing business valuation and financial consulting services. She is an Accredited Business Valuator (ABV) through the AICPA, a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) and Master Analyst in Financial Forensics (MAFF) through NACVA, an IRS representative (Enrolled Agent/EA) and a court certified, regularly appointed expert witness. Additionally, Trisch has her master’s in accounting with a concentration in business valuations (MAcc).
As a previous holder of the FINRA series 7, 62, 63, and 72 licenses, she has the financial services and merger & acquisition (M&A) background (10 years on Wall Street in investment banking and private equity) needed to maintain an active presence in M&A consulting.
Trisch was nominated (in 2020) as a NACVA Standards Board (SDB) Member, SDB Vice President in 2021, SDB Board Chair in 2022, SDB Advisor in 2024 and NACVA Outstanding Membership Award in 2023. She is a past Florida state chapter president for NACVA, recurring presenter on Current Updates in Valuation, Board Member and quarterly author for the valuation periodical, Secretary for the Association of Family Law Professionals, past Treasurer of the Florida Academy of Collaborative Professionals, and a past Vice-President of the Southwest Florida Chapter of Collaborative Professionals and current member.
Trisch is an avid speaker and author of various valuation and finance topics and a past interviewee for the “Value Examiner” publication, guest on Around the Valuation World (October 2020) (refer to Events – Website (anchorbvfs.com) for other events that Trisch has, or will be, participating in).
Recently, Trisch was a contributing author for The Art of Valuation a publication from The Appraisal Foundation (released Fall 2023) and assisted with the re-writing of a training textbook for NACVA.
Dr. Warren Keller
Dr. Warren Keller is a Psychologist licensed to practice in both Florida and New York State. He was the founder of the East Amherst Psychology Group the largest Psychology Group practice in the Western New York. He received his doctoral degree from the State University of New at Buffalo and completed his internships at the Children’s Hospital of Buffalo and in the Department of Pediatric Psychology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Trained in child and family psychology as well as neuropsychology he has been in Independent Practice for over 35 years. Dr. Keller has been assisting the Courts in both the 8th Judicial District of New York and the 20th Judicial District in Florida with parenting assessments, social investigations, reunification therapy, parenting coordination, and providing therapy to families and children adjusting after divorce and separation. Dr. Keller is pleased to be a part of the Family Law Community in Southwest Florida after relocating there permanently in 2018.
Solita King
Solita King is an associate attorney at Thompson Family Law, P.A. in Fort Myers, Florida. Upon obtaining her Florida Law License in early 2019, Solita has provided legal representation to individuals at all stages of litigation in various family law matters including divorce, paternity, child custody, shared parenting problems, enforcement of child support and alimony, marital settlement agreements, post-judgment modification and name changes. Along with her mentor, Stephen D. Thompson, Esq., Solita represents the Children’s Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida, a nonprofit organization which investigates child abuse and provides services to victims of child abuse and their families.
Prior to joining Thompson Family Law, P.A., Solita interned at Florida Rural Legal Services in Fort Myers, Florida, a nonprofit organization representing seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income individuals on family law and immigration matters.
Upon graduating law school in North Carolina in 2014, Solita earned a Certificate for Excellence in Advocacy due to completing the Advanced Criminal Advocacy Program. During law school, Solita’s activities included the Family Law Advocacy Clinic and the BP Oil Spill Disaster Relief Clinic.
Solita is licensed to practice law in the State of Florida and the State of North Carolina.