Jodi D. Dubose

JODI is a shareholder with Stichter, Riedel, Blain & Postler, P.A. and opened its Pensacola, Fla., office in 2015. As the sole attorney in the satellite office, she oversees the firm’s cases in the Northern District of Florida and in the state of Alabama. She regularly represents debtors, committees, creditors, trustees, purchasers, fiduciaries and other parties in bankruptcy cases, assignments for the benefit of creditors, receiverships and out-of-court workouts. She has been particularly active in fiduciary representation in state and federal courts, and she also handles civil litigation matters, principally in connection with debtor/ creditor disputes. In addition, she is a subchapter V trustee for the Northern District of Florida and the Southern District of Alabama, is certified by the Florida Supreme Court to mediate circuit civil cases in Florida state courts, and is approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Florida to mediate mortgage modification disputes. She is licensed to practice law in Florida, Alabama and Texas.

Jodi is a past president of the Northern District of Florida Bankruptcy Bar Association, the Escambia-Santa Rosa Bar Association (ESRBA) and the Young Lawyers’ Division of the ESRBA. She was the inaugural chair of the Gulf Coast Network of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, and she currently serves on IWIRC’s Executive Board. In addition, she has served on the Executive Council of the Business Law Section of the Florida Bar since 2011, chairing its Bankruptcy/UCC Committee, Bankruptcy Judicial Liaison Committee, Annual Retreat Committee, Membership Committee, and various study groups and task forces. Most recently, she successfully co-chaired its Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors Glitch Bill Task Force and was appointed vice chair of the Uniform Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act Glitch Bill Task Force. She has written for the ABI Journal, and every other year she edits the chapter on extraordinary remedies in the Florida Bar’s treatise Creditors’ and Debtors’ Practice in Florida. She also speaks annually at seminars on various insolvency law topics.

Jodi was encouraged to practice law by her grandfather’s legacy. His reputation as a lawyer led the Florida Board of Bar Examiners to pen a tribute to him upon his passing in honor of his quiet leadership and commitment to community, particularly when he stood up to racism in his small Southern town in the 1960s. He also had been part of a group of local men who brought a major hospital system to the middle of the poorest neighborhood, and he quietly made donations to nonprofits anonymously. Following in his footsteps, while in law school she interned for Hon. Lewis M. Killian, Jr. of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Florida, earning her pro bono certificate for providing free legal services in Alachua County. Today, she continues to provide pro bono legal services to various nonprofit boards across the panhandle of Florida and has held leadership positions on various nonprofit boards, including the YMCA of Northwest Florida (for which she is the current chair), the Keeping A Breast Foundation and the Pensacola Heritage Community Partnership.