Representative Dotie Joseph Contact information

Dotie Joseph is a Democratic member of the Florida Legislature representing the State’s 108th House district. She was born in Haiti and moved to Florida in 1982. She currently resides in North Miami.

Education: Dotie Joseph attended Miami-Dade public schools, including Lakeview Elementary, fine arts magnet programs at Charles Drew Elementary and Miami Norland Middle School, and Design and Architecture Senior High (DASH). She graduated from Yale University with a degree in Political Sciences and earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. She also studied abroad in France with Columbia University in Paris, and with the Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution in The Hague in the Netherlands.

Career: Joseph has worked as a federal judicial law clerk, legal consultant, a government and civil rights lawyer in the public and private sector. She is currently an attorney with Ottinot Law, an all-black law firm which specializes in complex government and business matters. Joseph won the election for Florida’s House of Representatives on November 6, 2018, from the platform of the Democratic Party. She secured 92% of the vote while her closest rival, Riquet Caballero, an LPF candidate, secured eight percent.

Additional Information: Dotie Joseph was born in Haiti but grew up in Miami, Florida. She has served as the vice-chair for the Democratic Party of Miami-Dade and as the president of the Haitian Lawyers Association. She assumed office on November 6, 2018. Her current term ends on November 5, 2024. Joseph won re-election to the Florida House of Representatives to represent District 108 outright after the general election on November 8, 2022, was canceled.