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Roberta Kemp Flowers

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Roberta Kemp Flowers

Prof. Roberta K. Flowers is a professor of law at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Fla.She also is the director of the Center for Excellence in Elder Law and the director of the LLM in ElderLaw. Prof. Flowers teaches ethics in an elder law practice in the Elder Law LL.M. program. She also teaches evidence, criminal procedure and professional responsibility. Prof. Flowers has served as the director of the Center for Excellence in Advocacy Center and as the William Reece Smith, Jr. Distinguished Professor in Professionalism. She is currently the vice president of NAELA (National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys). Prof. Flowers has lectured throughout the U.S. and internationally in the area of ethics. She co- created a set of videos depicting ethical dilemmas faced by elder law attorneys, which have been used throughout the U.S. to train attorneys. The Florida Supreme Court awarded Pher with the Florida Supreme Court Professionalism Award for her work on these videos. Additionally, she co-designed the first “elder-friendly courtroom” in the nation, a model of the important considerations that should be made when creating courtrooms of the future. Prof. Flowers began her career in 1984 as a deputy district attorney for the 18th Judicial District of Colorado, where she served as a trial attorney in the criminal division. In 1989, she was appointed assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District ofFlorida, where she served in the Appellate Division, the Major Crimes Unit and the Public CorruptionUnit. Prof. Flowers’s articles have appeared in such journals as the Fordham Law Review, the BostonCollege Law Review, Missouri Law Review, the Nebraska Law Review, the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, the Stetson Law Review and the NAELA Journal. She received her Bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in psychology from Baylor University in 1979 and her J.D. from the University of Colorado in 1984, where she was selected to be a member of the Order of the Coif.