Chivonne A.S. Thomas is a Partner in the firm’s U.S. Virgin Islands office based on the island of St. Croix. Ms. Thomas concentrates her practice on defending maritime, commercial liability, personal injury, premises liability, products liability, medical malpractice and labor and employment claims. She represents major hotels and resorts, Fortune 500 companies, insurers, cruise lines, and transportation companies in state and federal courts throughout Florida and the United States Virgin Islands.

Prior to joining Hamilton, Miller & Birthisel, LLP, Ms. Thomas served as Chief Legal Counsel for an Acute Care Hospital in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and prior to that she served as Director for the Medical Malpractice and Risk Unit of the Virgin Islands Department of Justice. Ms. Thomas has also served as the St, Croix-based attorney for the Office of the Governor – Office of Collective Bargaining for the Government of the Virgin Islands.

Ms. Thomas is a native of the U.S. Virgin Islands and in 2019 served as the youngest mandatory bar president in the United States as President of the Virgin Islands Bar Association. Ms. Thomas also served as the President of the non-profit Legal Services of the Virgin Islands from 2016 to 2018. She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Ms. Thomas earned her J.D. from the University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law where she was active in several regional moot court and negotiations competitions. She was also a senior associate on the Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business and the Founder and President of the Multi-Cultural Law Students Association. Following law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Audrey L. Thomas at the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands.