Rhonda Omslaer Warchola was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1964. She graduated from Sewickley Valley Hospital School of Nursing and received her B.S.N degree, summa cum laude, from La Roche College. She has ten years of combined emergency/critical care nursing experience. In 1995, Mrs. Warchola received her J.D. degree from University of Dayton.

Immediately thereafter, she began practicing law in Orlando, Florida, primarily in the area of medical malpractice and continued to do so until September 1999. From 1996 to 1999, she also volunteered as a guardian ad litem, providing legal representaion for abused and neglected children. During 1998-1999, she was an adjunct instructor at Southern College where she taught civil litigation, torts, and family law. During that same year, she performed consulting work in the area of risk management for Physicians Support Network. Mrs. Warchola has given seminars to physicians, nurses, and paralegals on medical/legal issues.

In 2000 she gave birth to her son, Jacob Alexander, who is pictured in the photograph. She currently works from home as a medical/legal consultant and lives in Tierra Verde with her son and her husband, Robert.

Rhonda and several of her friends who are also new mothers visit area nursing homes to cheer up residents, who delight in the company of the babies.

Front Row, Left to Right:
Dorothy F, Jacob's maternal
greatgrandmother, Lois O.,
Jacob's paternal grandmother,
and Rhonda holding Jacob.

Back Row, Left to Right:
Ronald F, Jacob's step-
greatgrandfather, Ronald O,
Jacob's grandfather, John O.,
Jacob's uncle, Bob Warchola,
Jacob's father.