Three Lowndes Attorneys Honored as Florida Trend's 2026 Legal Elite Notable Women Leaders in Law

Lowndes is pleased to announce that attorneys Rebecca Emmons, Melody Lynch, and Becky Wilson have been recognized in the 2026 edition of Florida Trend’s Legal Elite NOTABLE: Women Leaders in Law.

The annual list honors attorneys who exemplify professional excellence, leadership, and meaningful impact within the legal community. These distinguished professionals are celebrated for their integrity, commitment, and dedication to advancing the highest ethical standards. As role models, trailblazers, and mentors, they embody resilience, passion, and empathy in their practice.

Emmons is a real estate and corporate attorney in the firm’s Vero Beach office. In her real estate practice, she assists individuals, businesses, and developers with the purchase and sale of property, oversees residential and commercial closings as a title insurance underwriter, and counsels land developers on creating and implementing development restrictions. She also prepares homeowners’ association and condominium association governing documents and provides ongoing legal guidance to community associations throughout the region.

Lynch focuses her practice on probate, trust & fiduciary litigation, contested guardianships, healthcare and complex business disputes. A significant portion of her practice is devoted to resolving conflicts among family members and other estate beneficiaries, fights over missing assets and property ownership, claims by or against fiduciaries, guardianship challenges, and other proceedings requiring the interpretation of wills and trusts. She frequently helps charitable organizations, foundations, trustees and other institutional beneficiaries of large estates navigate the probate process. 

Wilson represents property owners, developers, lenders and other development participants with issues related to zoning, comprehensive plans, concurrency, administrative law, Developments of Regional Impact (DRIs), procurement issues, due diligence and property rights. Her work focuses on advising clients in the development of high-rise buildings, hotels, planned communities, large “power-centers,” mixed-use projects, office buildings and big box commercial projects, projects within historic districts, multi-family developments, student housing, senior living, and affordable housing.