Rebecca Bowen Creed

Rebecca Bowen Creed is a Florida Bar board-certified appellate specialist who has handled many appeals before the state and federal courts. She is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is listed as a “ Legal Elite” in Florida by Florida Trend magazine and as a “ Super Lawyer” in the top 5% of Florida lawyers by Law and Politics magazine.

Born and raised in North Carolina, Rebecca earned her undergraduate degree in English from the University of Virginia. She received her law degree with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a staff member of the North Carolina Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

After law school, Rebecca joined a Greensboro, North Carolina law firm, where she first developed an interest in civil litigation and appeals. Following her marriage to a coastal engineer, she moved to Florida and joined the Jacksonville law firm of Baumer, Bradford & Walters, P.A., where she focused on commercial and appellate litigation in the state and federal courts. She became a shareholder of Baumer, Bradford & Walters in 1998.

In the fall of 2000, Baumer, Bradford merged with the established Atlanta law firm of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP. While a partner with Smith Gambrell, Rebecca handled appeals in the state and federal courts on civil and commercial matters.

Rebecca joined the firm in January 2003 to focus exclusively on appellate litigation. Since then, her practice has included civil, commercial, criminal, and family law appellate matters, together with medical malpractice and personal injury appeals. She became an equal shareholder in the firm effective January 2007.

Rebecca has served as the chair of the appellate law section of the Jacksonville Bar Association and is an alumnus of the Chester Bedell Inn of Court, where she was a barrister. She serves as the chair of the Appellate Practice Guide, a publication of the Florida Bar’s Appellate Practice Section.