Victoria Méndez, was a prosecutor in Miami Dade County from 2000-2004. She is now the Supervising Assistant City Attorney for the General Government, Quality of Life, and Administration Division of the Office of the City Attorney, City of Miami. Her main areas of practice are land use and environmental law, concentrating in the areas of platting, building, code enforcement, eminent domain, planning and zoning, and handling the litigation thereof. She is also the Internship and Recruitment Coordinator for the Office.
Mrs. Méndez received her Juris Doctor in December 1999 from the University of Miami College of Law and her Masters Degree of Public Administration from the University of Miami in May 1999. She received an undergraduate Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and Political Science from the University of Miami in December of 1995. Mrs. Méndez was inducted into Iron Arrow, Omicron Delta Kappa and Alpha Epsilon Phi Honors Societies while in law school and studied abroad at the University College of London.
Mrs. Méndez is admitted to practice in The Florida Bar and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. In addition to sitting on the Board of Directors of the League of Prosecutors, Mrs. Méndez is also the President of the Cuban American Bar Association (CABA) and on the Board of the CABA Foundation. She is a Trustee for the Miami-Dade County Law Library and former Chair for a Florida Bar Grievance Committee. Mrs. Mendez is a member of the American Bar Association; Dade County Bar Association; Florida Association for Women Lawyers; National Association of Women Lawyers; Spellman-Hoeveler American Inn of Courts; National Association for Professional Women and a Florida Bar Foundation Fellow. Mrs. Méndez is married to Carlos E. Morales,they have two sons.
