Ms. Rhea Hudson Sheldon

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Rhea Sheldon Selected As One Of Mississippi's Fifty Leading Business Women

We are pleased to announce that Rhea Sheldon, managing attorney in Abbott, Simses, & Kuchler's, Jackson, Mississippi office, has been selected as one of Mississippi's 50 Leading Business Women.

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RHEA HUDSON SHELDON is the managing attorney for the Jackson office of Abbott, Simses, & Kuchler.Her primary practice areas are General Civil Litigation and Toxic Tort Litigation.

Ms. Sheldon was born in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1975.She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History in 1997.Prior to attending law school, she was a high school history teacher.

Ms. Sheldon received her law degree in 2002 from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.She was an active member of the Law School Student Body, serving her fellow classmates as Honor Council member, Honor Council Chairperson, and the Law School Student Body Election Commissioner.As a member of the Moot Court Board, she served as Judicial Relations Director, sat on the Executive Committee and was named the 2002 Most Valuable Member.She was also active in the Public Interest Law Clinic.

Prior to joining the Firm, she was a law clerk at the Mississippi Supreme Court for Presiding Justice Kay B. Cobb.Following her clerkship, Ms. Sheldon's practice focused on insurance defense and personal injury litigation.

Ms. Sheldon is in charge of the day-to-day case management of asbestos and benzene dockets for some of the Firm's major corporate clients in Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Mississippi.By focusing on early case assessment, Ms. Sheldon has successfully negotiated dismissals of thousands of claims prior to conducting extensive discovery and trial preparation.

In 2006, during a federal bench trial, Ms. Sheldon, serving as co-lead counsel, obtained a defense judgment on behalf of a corporate officer of a marine rescue and towing corporation.She also obtained a favorable ruling on behalf of three of the Firm's clients in a benzene matter pending in a Mississippi state court that resulted the dismissal of the plaintiffs' claims with prejudice.

Ms. Sheldon is an active member of the Georgia Bar Association, Mississippi Bar Association, Florida Bar Association and American Bar Association.She is also an active member of the Jackson Young Lawyers and Hinds County Bar Association where she serves on the Women in the Profession Committee and Courthouse Education Committee.Ms. Sheldon was nominated and admitted into the Charles Clark Inn of Court, a state chapter of a national legal organization designed to improve the skills, professionalism and ethics of the legal profession.

Ms. Sheldon was recently honored by the Mississippi Business Journal when she was named a 2007 Recipient of "Mississippi's 50 Leading Business Women."

Ms. Sheldon currently resides in Jackson, Mississippi with her husband, Jay.

Rhea Sheldon, associate in the Jackson Office

Recently, Rhea Sheldon, of the Jackson, Mississippi office of Abbott, Simses & Kuchler, successfully obtained a significant Motion to Dismiss on behalf of three of the Firm's clients.
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Rhea Sheldon is an Associate in the Jackson, Mississippi office.She practices in the areas of toxic tort litigation and general civil litigation.Ms. Sheldon received her J.D. from the University of Mississippi in 2002, and her B.A. from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1997.

Rhea Sheldon Selected By The Mississippi Business Journal As One Of Mississippi’s Fifty Leading Business Women for 2007Abbott, Simses & Kuchler
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Rhea Sheldon Selected By The Mississippi Business Journal As One Of Mississippi's Fifty Leading Business Women for 2007
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After graduating from law school, Rhea Sheldon thought her dream of becoming a managing attorney of a law firm was a long-term goal.She never guessed that after being out of law school for only four years, she would be offered such a position.

"The added responsibilities for supervising the attorneys and staff in the Jackson office seemed overwhelming at first," admitted Sheldon, quickly adding, "Who am I kidding?It was overwhelming.It took lots of patience from the attorneys, the staff and me.But by coming to work every day and doing my job, admitting the mistakes I made and laughing instead of crying, we managed to make it work.I couldn't have done this without the support of the entire office."

Sheldon grew up in Purvis, the oldest of three children born to Kent Hudson, an attorney, and his wife, Sue, a dental assistant.
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After graduating with honors from the University of Southern Mississippi, Sheldon returned to Purvis with a game plan , she'd teach history to high school students while earning a master's degree in special education and then obtaining a PhD.But at the time she applied for law school, Sheldon found herself becoming disillusioned with teaching."I didn't like the discipline aspect and found I was bored with teaching the same lessons over and over," she admitted."I wasn't mentally challenged by the preparation for the subjects I taught.I'm sure like every other lawyer, I thought I could make a difference."

Sheldon excelled in law school, becoming involved in student government and law school organizations.She was a member of the Public Interest Law Clinic, sat on the Honor Council and was elected Honor Council chair.She was also the law school student body election commissioner and a member of the Moot Court board, Moot Court executive committee and Moot Court judicial relations director.As a third-year law student, her Moot Court peers selected her "Most Valued Member."

She clerked for Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Kay Cobb before joining Gore Kilpatrick Purdie Metz & Adcock's litigation practice in Ridgeland.She joined Abbot Simses & Kuchler in the fall of 2003 and was named managing attorney in December 2006, "to date, the most noteworthy honor I've received," she said.

Rhea Sheldon, an associate in the Jackson office, actively planned the October reception for Ms. Roberts.
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Abbott, Simses & Kuchler participants at the program were Larry Abbott, Janika Polk, Darren Guillot, Corina Salazar, Rhea Sheldon, Keith Gates and Jevan Fleming.