Practice Experience

• Penelope A. Dixon is a member of the firm’s Products and Toxic Tort Liability, Business Litigation and Trade Regulation, Labor and Employment and Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Practice Groups.
• She has extensive experience in areas such as products liability, pharmaceutical and medical device mass tort litigation, commercial litigation, and automotive litigation.

Professional and Civic Activities

• The Florida Bar (2000-present)
• National Bar Association
  Sections of Commercial Law and Young Lawyer Division (2000-present)
• American Bar Association
  Section of Litigation and Young Lawyers Division (2000-present)
• Women In Products Liability
  Planning Committee (2005-present)
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  Legal Redress Committee, Chair (2003-2006)
• George Edgecomb Bar Association (2000-present)
  Banquet Committee (2002)
  Scholarship Committee (2003)
  Social Committee, Co-Chair (2003, 2004)
• Hillsborough County Bar Association
  Young Lawyers Division (2000-present)
• Hillsborough Reads
  B.C. Graham Elementary School, Volunteer Tutor (2002-2003)
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Tampa Bay
  Bowl for Kids Sake (2002, 2003)
• American Diabetes Association
  America’s Walk for Diabetes, Team Member (2003-2007)
• Leadership Tampa Class (2008)
• 13th Judicial Circuit Pro Bono Committee

Professional Recognition

• BV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Selected as one of Tampa Bay Business Journal’s 2008 Up & Comers Awards
• Recognized for support by Florida State Conference NAACP Area IX Legal Redress Initiative (April 2005)
• National Association of Women Lawyers Outstanding Woman Law Student Award
• Mercer University Moot Court Board

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Florida

COURT ADMISSIONS

• Florida State Courts
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

Education

• Mercer University Walter F. George College of Law (J.D., 2000)
  Certified in Advance Legal Writing, Research, and Drafting
• Alcorn State University (B.A., Political Science, summa cum laude, 1997)