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About Arthenia Joyner
Senator Arthenia L. Joyner is Of Counsel at Swope, Rodante P.A. in Tampa, practicing personal injury and civil litigation. Born in Lakeland and reared in Tampa, she was Florida's fifth Black female lawyer and the first Black female lawyer in Hillsborough County, where she began practice after earning her B.S. and J.D. from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. Stetson University College of Law awarded her an Honorary Doctor of Laws in 1991. She participated in the Woolworth lunch counter demonstrations as a high school student and was twice arrested for demonstrating against segregation during her undergraduate years at Florida A&M. As president of the National Bar Association, she was arrested while protesting apartheid outside the South African Embassy in Washington D.C. in 1985.
She served in the Florida House of Representatives and later in the Florida Senate, where she was Senate Democratic Leader. She received presidential appointments from President Clinton, including to the U.S. Delegation to the International Population Development Conference in Cairo (1994) and to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995).
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A Hillsborough County jury awarded $30.1 million to a passenger left with a permanent brain injury after the truck driver's insurer refused to offer more than its $100,000 policy limit, a verdict the Florida Supreme Court unanimously preserved in 2023.
A Manatee County jury returned an $11 million verdict, including more than $9.8 million in punitive damages, against road-construction subcontractor L.E. Myers Co. after the firm proved it failed to close a required traffic lane, leading to a fatal collision in the work zone.
A Hillsborough County jury awarded $6.7 million to Angel Martinez and his wife after contaminated oysters served at a Tampa seafood restaurant triggered Guillain-Barre syndrome that left him paralyzed from the waist down for months.
A Hardee County jury awarded $5 million to the parents of Michael Lieux, a former Marine with a brain injury who died of positional asphyxia after FINR staff pinned him face-down using a technique the facility called 'therapeutic containment.'
Anthony Ellis, 21, was hit by a left-turning driver while riding his motorcycle on US 301 in Riverview, Florida, in January 2016. He needed knee reconstruction and had broken bones in his foot. A Hillsborough County jury awarded about $3.83 million in May 2019 after a four-day trial in which the defense disputed fault.
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