Attorney Tracey A. Wood , founder and owner of Tracey Wood & Associates is an accomplished
criminal defense attorney who represents clients in the Madison, Wisconsin area. She focuses her practice on defending the rights of individuals whether they are charged with drunken driving or more severe criminal charges including murder and federal conspiracy.
She is known throughout the legal community as the foremost authority on Wisconsin OWI DUI laws and has been hailed for her defenses and successful trial and case record.
Ms. Wood has been pioneering new frontiers for
women in law since she entered practice in 1992. She is the first attorney from Wisconsin ever appointed as a
Standardized Field Sobriety Test Instructor, and first Wisconsin attorney to be appointed to the Board of Regents to the
National College for DUI Defense held at
Harvard Law School. She chairs the
Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Strike Force for the state's largest association for criminal defense lawyers and has previously served as the President of that organization. She has authored several articles on defense against drunk driving charges including
Challenging Prior Under Influence Convictions, an article discussing U.S. v. Gant in the
Wisconsin Law Journal, and she has contributed to the
national DUI attorneys' bible by
Taylor &
Oberman, entitled
"Drunk Driving Defense".
She has also won many appeals in both the
Wisconsin Appellate System (most recently City of Beloit v. Steven Herbst) and the
7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago (i.e. U.S. v. Andres Perez).