Christopher L. Rhoads, a Kentucky personal injury attorney, is the lead partner of Rhoads & Rhoads, PSC. He has been exclusively representing injury and disability victims for over twenty-five (25) years, specializing in vehicle accidents, wrongful death, product liability cases, traumatic brain injury, and Social Security Disability law. Prior to joining his family’s law firm, Rhoads & Rhoads, PSC, Chris practiced at a large defense firm in Lexington, Kentucky, where he represented insurance companies, trucking companies, product manufacturers, and corporations. This experience served Chris well to better understand how the cases he now litigates for injured people are defended, and this experience gives him a unique perspective to effectively represent injury and disability victims. Chris is passionate about helping people and has earned a stellar reputation in the community for his dedication to his clients and for achieving successful results for his clients. He has extensive trial experience and has been involved in several multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts over the past three (3) decades.
Chris has an “AV” rating, the highest possible national rating for professional excellence and ethics, from Martindale-Hubbell. The “AV” rating is derived from confidential assessments by attorneys and judges across the state. In addition to the highest attainable legal ability ratings, he has been given the highest marks for "adherence to professional standards of conduct, ethics, reliability, and diligence.” Chris is a member of the National Association of Distinguished Counsel, Litigation Counsel of America, the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and has served on the Board of Governors for the Kentucky Justice Association (the state trial lawyers association) for over twenty (20) years, and in 2025 was elected as President of the Kentucky Justice Association. Chris has also been given the honor by two (2) Governors to be appointed to serve as a special justice on the Kentucky Supreme Court on two (2) separate occasions. He has successfully argued cases in the Kentucky appellate courts and in the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has also consistently been awarded “Best Attorney” by Owensboro Living Magazine through the Messenger-Inquirer Readers’ Choice Awards.
Chris is very active in the legal community and has held leadership positions in the Kentucky Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, and the Daviess County Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker at seminars and conventions across the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is important to Chris to be an active community member. He has been a member at Settle Memorial Methodist Church and has served in several missionary-related positions, on the Administrative Board, and has taught Sunday School for many years. He serves on the Owensboro Health Foundation Board of Directors and is on the Salvation Army Advisory Board. Chris has also served on the Board of Directors for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Owensboro, Mentor Kids of Kentucky, and at the OASIS spouse abuse shelter. Chris is vested in his community and takes a great deal of pride in his community and being a seventh-generation western Kentuckian.
