Professional Profile
Rachel Thomas serves as counsel in Carr Allison’s Pensacola (FL) office, where her practice focuses on defending personal injury and premises liability claims. She is licensed to practice law in Florida, Alabama, Georgia and the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida.
Rachel is a double Gator, having earned her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in Business Administration along with her Juris Doctorate cum laude from the University of Florida.
During law school, Rachel received the Fall 2016 Book Award for Trial Practice and the Fall 2017 Book Award for International Commercial Arbitration and Moot. Rachel also became a member of the Florida Moot Court Team, where she was selected to compete in The ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition in Boston (MA).
As a third-year law student, Rachel was one of four law students selected to compete in the International Chamber of Commerce Vis Pre-Moot in Paris, France, where she and her team placed first in the competition. Rachel also competed on behalf of the University of Florida in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria. These experiences led her to pursue a career in civil litigation.
Rachel is actively involved in the community, serving as an Executive Council member of the Escambia-Santa Rosa Bar Association and a member of the Young Lawyer’s Division and Northwest Florida Association for Women Lawyers. Due to her involvement, Rachel was named a 2020 Rising Star by Inweekly Magazine. She was also named by Inweekly’s Best of the Coast as the Runner-Up Best Attorney in 2021 and Best Attorney in 2022.
In her free time, Rachel enjoys reading, hiking and seeing the world with her husband, Blake.
