Division: Circuit Family
Judicial Assistant: Karen Flash
Office: (321) 637-5305 | Email
Located at the Moore Justice Center Viera, Brevard
Magistrate Smith-Rodriguez is an active member in the Vassar B. Carlton Inn of Court. The Organization includes members of the bar and the bench who present on monthly on a variety of legal topics to educate their colleagues and build relationships in the legal community. Ms. Smith-Rodriguez has been a member since 2013 and held the role of team captain twice.
In 2019, Magistrate Smith-Rodriguez joined the Florida Chapter of Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. She is currently a board member and has been the chair/co-chair of the annual education program since 2022. In such role, Magistrate Smith-Rodriguez actively contributes to the dissemination of quality content and cutting-edge research for family law professionals, including lawyers, mediators, and mental health professionals.
From 2019-2021, as a co-chair on multiple task force subcommittees with the FLAFCC, Magistrate Smith-Rodriguez was a contributor to the November/December 2021 Florida Bar Journal article, Blueprint for a More Effective Family Court Intake Process and Beyond: Opening the Umbrella to Process Family Court Cases.
Ms. Smith-Rodriguez is an active member of the Kiwanis Club of Titusville. Since 2013, Ms. Smith-Rodriguez has been a member, board member, and past president of the Kiwanis Club of Titusville, where she actively participates in initiatives that aim to serve one child and one community at a time. Her most recent service projects include in installing community libraries, providing shoes for students in need, organizing holiday gifts and necessities for children, and she has previously served as a mentor to the students in the Kiwanis Builder’s Club at Jackson Middle School.
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