Ruth Rhodes

Biographical Information

Ruth C. Rhodes, Esq. is admitted to practice in all courts of the State of Florida, as well as the Federal District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Ms. Rhodes graduated Valedictorian, Magna Cum Laude, Florida A&M University College of Law, juris doctor, 2006 (first in class).

Estate Planning and Taxation club, Criminal Justice Club, Moot Court Client Counseling competitor at state level, Florida A & M University Law Review 2004 – 2006, The City, County and Local Government Law Section of The Florida Bar, Outstanding Local Government Law School Student Award, 2006. Western New Mexico University in Silver City, New Mexico, B.S., Honors, Administration of Justice, minor in Political Science, 1996. Awarded Outstanding Administration of Justice Student, 1996, and listed in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, 1996. Keiser College of Technology in Melbourne, Florida, A.S., Honors, Paralegal Studies, 1992. Melbourne High School, 1986.
Organizations: member of the Florida Bar Association (including the Young Lawyer's Division), the Brevard County Bar Association (including the Young Lawyer's Division), the American Bar Association (including the Young Lawyer's Division), Young Professionals of Brevard, and Rotary International.

Ms. Rhodes moved to the Melbourne, Florida area in 1968 as an infant, and lived in the area her entire life with the exception of time spent attending college in New Mexico. Most of her employment since 1992 has been in the legal field. She worked as a Deputy Court Clerk in Brevard County, Florida and Silver City, New Mexico, and held a position of Court Financial Specialist in Silver City, New Mexico. She worked as a paralegal for local firms that practiced in the following areas of law: Social Security Disability; criminal; family; and wills, trusts and estate planning. In addition, she worked for the Department of Children and Families as an Economic Self-Sufficiency Specialist where she made medicaid elligibility determinations (as well as other elligibility determinations).