Ramona Murphy Bartos

Education

• Joint Master of Historic Preservation and Doctor of Jurisprudence degree, cum laude, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia (2002)
• Sigma Pi Kappa (historic preservation honor society) (2002)
• Bachelor of Arts in History and International Studies, Emory University (1997) (Robert W. Woodruff Scholar)
• Phi Beta Kappa (1995)
• 1993 valedictorian, Effingham County High School, Springfield, Georgia

Professional

• Member in good standing of the State Bar of Georgia
• Admitted to practice in all Georgia state courts and the Federal District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
• City Attorney for the City of Guyton, Georgia
• Registered Neutral with the Georgia Commission for Dispute Resolution, certified to conduct general civil mediations in the State of Georgia
• Instructor for the Paralegal Program at Armstrong Atlantic University in Savannah, Georgia, teaching Trusts and Estates, Legal Terminology, and Legal Research and Writing I & II
• member of Paralegal Program Advisory Committee at Savannah Technical College
• Arbitrator for BBB AUTO LINE Program for region serviced by Better Business Bureau, Southeast Atlantic, Inc. 
• preservation law speaker for Georgia Alliance of Preservation Commissions, Historic Preservation Commission Training (October 2007, Elberton, GA; April 2008, Douglas, GA), and National Alliance of Preservation Commissions, CAMP (April 2008, Hammond, LA; May 2008, Washington State; June 2008, Ponca City, Oklahoma)

Personal

• Proficient in Czech and Spanish
• Member of Historic Effingham Society
• Author of following texts:  
  
  "At the Mercy of the Enemy" (with Omar Bartos), World War II Magazine, October 2006. (article concerning US Army penetration into eastern Czechoslovakia, May 1945)

        "Lidice Shall Live!":    The 
        Commemoration Methodology of a  
        Liquidated Central European    
        Village." Presented at the 3^rd 
        Savannah Symposium:
        "Commemoration and the City,"
        Savannah College of Art and    
        Design, February 2003.

        Libuse's Dream:  Historic Preservation 
        in Prague, the Czech Republic. 
        Master of Historic Preservation                 
        Thesis, University of Georgia, 
        Athens, GA, 2002.