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Valerie Prevatte earned her Bachelor of Science from Florida State University and her Doctorate of Juris Prudence from South Texas College of Law. After completing her education, she and her husband returned to their hometown of Pensacola.

Valerie Prevatte began her legal career as a prosecutor in the Escambia County office of the State Attorney. During her six years as a prosecutor, she prosecuted thousands of criminal cases ranging from misdemeanor DUI offenses to first degree punishable-by-life felony offenses. As a trial attorney, she went up against some of the best and well-known defense attorneys around. Those experiences honed her trial skills and gave her a reputation as a formidable trial opponent.

As an active member of several legal organizations, Valerie Prevatte stays up-to-date on current events within the legal community. She has served as President of the Escambia Santa Rosa Bar Association; President of the Northwest Florida Association for Women Lawyers; Treasurer of the Escambia Santa Rosa chapter of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (FACDL); and is an active member of the local Inns of Court chapter. In 2023 she visited the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom with the American Inns of Court. Later same that year she had the opportunity to reunite with some of her fellow Inns members at the Celebration of Excellence ceremony at the Supreme Court of the United States.

She is a proud past recipient of the Women Leaders In the Law Award and the Florida Bar President's Pro Bono Award for the First Judicial Circuit of Florida, and the Michael A. Doubek Community Service Award.

In addition to her admission to the Florida Bar in 1997, Valerie Prevatte was admitted to practice law in the Federal Court of the Northern District of Florida in 2004. Then, in 2009, she was sworn in to the Supreme Court of the United States of America, a distinction held by very few criminal defense attorneys in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.