Rhonda Rhodes, ESQ.

WILLIAMS & RHODES LLP
7887 East Belleview Ave., Suite 1100
Englewood, CO 80111
Phone: 303.220.0303 Fax: 303.840.7370
E-mail: rrhodes@WilliamsAndRhodes.com

Office of General Counsel
U.S. Department of Energy
Western Area Power Administration
Golden, Colorado
1996-1998

• Responsible for administrative (EEOC and MSPB) and U.S. District Court resolution and/or litigation of employment and discrimination complaints. Appointed Special Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Colorado in Title VII litigation.
• Adjudicated Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act and Federal Tort Claims Act requests and claims. Responsible for litigation related to Federal Tort Claims Act cases and disposition of travel appeal to GSA Board of Contract of Appeals.
• Additional responsibilities included conducting ethics training and EEO training for Western employees serving as counselors.

Colorado Compensation Insurance Authority
Denver, Colorado
1995

• Served as hearings attorney representing quasi-governmental insurance carrier in Workers Compensation cases.

Resolution Trust Corporation
Denver, Colorado
1993-1995

• Litigated for the RTC as receiver of failed thrifts in contract, real property and financial instrument cases as well as against RTC contractor.
• Managed outside counsel in New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma and Arizona directing strategy and use of RTC special powers in 120 cases.

National Association of Security Dealers
Denver, Colorado
1991-1993

• Arbitrator for securities cases.

University of Denver
Denver, Colorado
1991

• Adjunct Professor, Department of Legal Studies

University of Colorado at Denver
Denver, Colorado
1991

• Honorarium Instructor, College of Business

U.S. Department of Justice
Antitrust Division
Dallas, Texas
1990-1991

• Honors recruit to trial attorney position.
• Investigated and prosecuted federal criminal antitrust violations including a major bid rigging case in Texas.
• Selected as attorney team member issuing forthwith subpoenas in southern state investigation.

United States District Court
Northern District of Texas
Lubbock, Texas
1988-1990

• Law Clerk to the Honorable Sam R. Cummings, United States District Judge.
• Researched and wrote legal memoranda on motions with recommendations for their disposition including case of first impression regarding HIV positive prisoners.
• Compiled jury charge and research trial issues in seven defendant, eighty-eight-count indictment, six-month savings and loan prosecution.

• "Recent Developments in Retaliation Law and Resulting Implications for the Federal Sector," The Colorado Lawyer, January, 1999

• Special Outstanding Achievement Award for Employment Litigation, 1998
• Quality Service Award, 1994

Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, Texas
Doctor of Jurisprudence, Cum Laude 1988
Order of the Coif Class Rank 10/169
Texas Tech Law Review Associate Editor
American Jurisprudence Award, Evidence
John H. Wood Memorial Fellowship
R. Guy Carter Scholarship
Thompson & Knight Scholarship

Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico
Master of Education 1980
Phi Kappa Phi

Lubbock Christian College, Lubbock, Texas
Bachelor of Science of Education, Summa cum Laude 1977
President=s Award 1977
Senior Achievement Award 1977

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