Biography
The Honorable Rhonda Hunter of Dallas lectures and writes on topics ranging from legal history to diversity. Board Certified in Family Law and Child Welfare Law, Rhonda Hunter is a former District Court Judge in Dallas, Texas.
Judge Hunter represents the Dallas Bar Association in the American Bar Association House of Delegates where she serves as Secretary of the Racial and Ethnic Diversity Caucus. She is a member of the American Bar Association Juvenile Justice Standards Task Force charged with rewriting the nation's Juvenile Justice Standards. She has served on the ABA Commission on Youth at Risk, and the ABA Diversity Center, is the former Chief of the Juvenile Division of the Dallas County District Attorney's Office and spent thirty years in the private practice of law.
Hunter is past president of the Dallas Bar Association, the J. L. Turner Legal Association, the Dallas Association of Black Women Attorneys and the DBA Community Service Fund; she is a former member of the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors, the National Conference of Bar Presidents’ Executive Council, the Metropolitan Bar Caucus Executive Committee, the Supreme Court of Texas Board of Disciplinary Appeals and the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. She is immediate past Chair of the Child Protection Law Section of the State Bar of Texas and the Committee for a Qualified Judiciary in Dallas.
She formerly served on the boards of the Child and Family Guidance Center, North Texas Food Bank, DIspute Mediation Service, DBA Community Service Fund and Dallas Bar Foundation.
While in private practice, Rhonda Hunter was named as one of the 500 Most Powerful Business Leaders in Dallas in 2016 and 2017 by D-CEO Magazine and was featured on the cover of the 2016 edition of Texas Superlawyers.