Education:

National Criminal Defense College

Trial Practice Institute Certificate

Norman Manley Law School

Legal Education Certificate

University of Florida College of Law

Juris Doctor

University of Florida

Bachelor of Science in Public Relations
 

Bar Admissions:
Florida
Georgia
Jamaica



In February 2010, Tasha Rodney walked into a Fulton County courtroom to defend a man everyone had already decided would be convicted. Public defenders don't win murder trials; that's not cynicism, it's statistics. Hours later, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty on every count.

In that moment, Rodney knew the verdict hadn't just changed her client's life. It had fulfilled her own childhood dream. At six years old, after watching a movie about an innocent person who was wrongly convicted, she went to her mother in tears and declared that she did not want a wrongful conviction to happen again. Winning that trial and giving an innocent man his life back was her dream come true.

That verdict was one chapter in a 27-year career built on service. Since then, Rodney has represented families seeking justice after police killings, presented evidence before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C., and today reaches hundreds of thousands across the United States and the Caribbean through writing and commentary that challenge, inform, and inspire.

She has spent her career choosing service over self, believing the measure of a life well lived is not found in what we accumulate, but in the difference we make.

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