In this episode, we pass the mic to Judge Claudia Isom to discuss women in the law and the judiciary.

Claudia Rickert Isom became a member of the Florida Bar on October 23, 1975. She was elected to the judiciary and served as a circuit judge in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit for 28 years before retiring in December 2018. Judge Isom currently serves as a senior judge. During her judicial career, she served in Family Law, Criminal Justice (Felony), Juvenile Dependency, Juvenile Delinquency, Circuit Civil, East Division (Plant City), the Probate, Guardianship and Trust Division and Circuit Civil Division. She previously chaired the Florida Bar’s Standing Committee on Professionalism and the Rules of Judicial Administration Committee. Judge Isom served on the Florida Bar Rules of Civil Procedure Committee and the Code and Rules of Evidence Committee. Isom is a member and past president of the Tampa Bay Inn of Court and served as the judge member of the 13th Judicial Circuit’s Diversity Team for eight years following the Supreme Court’s creation of Court Diversity Teams. Judge Isom retired from the bench in 2018 and currently serves as a senior judge. Since retirement, Judge Isom has become a certified mediator and remains involved in diversity awareness and bias elimination initiatives. She is a member of the Florida Conference of Circuit Judges Executive Committee and currently co-chairs its Senior Judges Committee. Judge Isom is a frequent trainer in the area of diversity and reducing bias in the judicial branch. Judge Isom served twelve years as a member of the Supreme Court’s Standing Committee on Fairness and Diversity and chaired its Education Subcommittee. A 1975 FSU College of Law graduate, Judge Isom has been married to her law school classmate, Woody Isom, for 50 years; is the mother of four children (including two lawyers); and grandmother to six granddaughters.

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