S. Roxana Richardson, JD

As part of the MedStar Washington Hospital Center’s Women’s and Infants’ Services (WIS) “Safe Babies Safe Moms” program, Roxy provides no-cost legal services to women facing issues that raise legal barriers to their efforts to achieve optimal health and well-being for themselves and their infants. In serving WIS patients, she draws on expertise gained as an attorney serving over 300 diverse clients during her four years with the Health Law Partnership, a medical-legal partnership at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and partnerships with local law and medical schools to address the socioeconomic barriers affecting lower-income children and their families to improve their health and well-being. She received her law degree from Stetson University College of Law and her bachelor’s degree from Penn State. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Georgia.