Angela received her B.B.A. from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, in 2001, and her J.D. from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, with a concentration in Litigation, in 2007. While in law school, Angela earned book awards in her Comparative Procedure and Child Abuse and Neglect courses.

Angela worked as a law clerk at the Department of the Army (HQDA), in Washington D.C.,  serving the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Equal Employment and Civil Rights.  During her clerkship, Angela drafted final agency decisions and prepared and assisted with legal presentations focused on federal law and hiring authorities to non-competitively hire soldiers wounded in the War on Terror.

After graduation, Angela started her law career as a Staff Attorney to the Honorable Judges of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, where she worked on complex Family and Civil Litigation matters in the Unified Family and Orange and Osceola County Civil Courts.

In 2009, Angela joined the Gail L. Silva, P.A., law firm, where she focused on Family Law and Civil Litigation.  In 2010, Angela joined The Patten Law Firm, LLC, where her representation is concentrated in the areas of Family Law, Civil and Commercial Litigation.

Angela currently volunteers by serving as a Teen Court judge.

Memberships: 

• Florida Bar
• Central Florida Association of Women Lawyers