Rhonda Sherrod named Bristol Managing Attorney

(May 3, 2024)

Rhonda Sherod, Bristol Managing Attorney, Legal Aid of Southeastern PA

BRISTOL- Rhonda Sherrod was named LASP's Bristol Managing Attorney in April 2024, succeeding Joshua Z. Goldblum. She joined LASP as Staff Attorney in January 2007 in the Bristol Office, handling cases involving public benefits and dependency. In 2011, she moved to the Doylestown Office, focusing on dependency and occasionally Protection from Abuse (PFA) cases. In 2016, Rhonda shifted her practice to elder law, representing people in Adult Protective Services hearings, guardianship hearings, and drafting powers of attorney, advance directives and simple wills. She represents clients age 60+ in landlord-tenant matters, consumer credit card lawsuits, Social Security, and Unemployment Compensation and benefit issues, including SNAP and long-term care Medicaid. She provides educational outreach to senior centers and community organizations.

From 2003-06, Rhonda served as Assistant Public Defender for the Defender Association of Philadelphia. She holds a J.D. from Tulane Law School and a B.A. in English, magna cum laude, from Howard University. During law school, she interned at the Tulane Law School Juvenile Law Clinic in New Orleans, Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, and was a Law Clerk for Project Save. She interned at the Defender Association Capital Habeas Unit the year after earning her law degree.

She joined the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament (SBS) in 1993 and remained with the sisters until 2010. The SBS is a Roman Catholic religious congregation who, among other good works, founded Xavier University of Louisiana. During her time as a Sister of the Blessed Sacrament, she served on the Board of Trustees of Xavier University of Louisiana from 2003-2008.

She was a Volunteer Child Advocate for CASA New Orleans, a crisis line volunteer and shift supervisor for the Suicide Prevention Center of Los Angeles and a Paraprofessional Counselor for the Southern California Mental Health Center.