About Ama
Ama Appiah educated at Albany Law School and earned her J.D. in 2000. She left law school at the begin of a career that has moved among public service and private practice. Her early years after graduation provided a foundation in courtroom work and client advocacy.
Her first recorded role after law school used to be as a law clerk and then lawyer in 2003 at Maura J. Kiefer, P.A. That role preceded a couple of 2005 positions: she served with the Statewide Guardian ad Litem Program and additionally worked as a Special Assistant Public Defender in the Tenth Judicial Public Defender's Office. Those posts offered experience on each facets of the docket and common contact with judges, courtroom staff and vulnerable clients.
In 2008 she opened a solo practice under the name Law Office of Ama N. Appiah. She has maintained that workplace as her base of operations since then. Alongside her personal practice she has taken on pro bono and nonprofit work at a number of factors in her profession. From 2010 to 2012 she volunteered with Gulfcoast Legal Services. Later she served on Gulfcoast Legal Services’ board from 2015 through 2019.
Appiah is admitted to practice in Florida and in the U.S. Middle District of Florida. Her background in public defense and guardianship work means she arrived at private practice with courtroom experience and a knowledge of procedures in both state and federal settings. Colleagues describe her approach as continuous and direct; she tends to the procedural and realistic duties that move a case forward.
She has participated in nearby bar and expert teams across the Tampa Bay area. She belongs to the Pinellas County Chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers, a membership she started in 2016 and maintains. Between 2017 and 2019 she held memberships within the St. Petersburg Bar Association, the Clearwater Bar Association and the Fred G. Minnis Bar Association. She also joined the Tampa Bay Women Lawyers Networking Group from 2015 to 2018. In 2013 she served at the Spanish-Language Films Advisory Board for the Sunscreen Film Festival.
Her career reads as a mixture of court work, public service and network involvement. She continues to operate the Law Office of Ama N. Appiah, representing clients in things filed in Florida courts and within the U.S. Middle District of Florida.
