Phaedra Parks

About

Phaedra Creonta Parks (born October 26, 1973) is an American attorney, legal analyst, television personality, author, activist, and businesswoman.
Parks is best known for appearances on reality television, including, Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta (2010–2017; 2024–present), Peacock’s The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip (2022; 2024), Married to Medicine (2023–2024), and The Traitors (2024).

Parks was born in Athens, Georgia. She is one of four children to pastor parents Regina Bell and Henry Parks. Parks would attend Wesleyan College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors, before continuing her studies in 1995, at the University of Georgia School of Law, where she would undertake her Juris Doctor, graduating in 1997.

In 2000, Parks founded her Atlanta-based law firm, The Parks Group, which specializes in intellectual property and entertainment law. Parks first gained recognition for her legal representation of R&B singer Bobby Brown during his strand of legal cases in the 2000s. She’s also represented producer Jazze Pha, songwriter Jermaine Dupri, and rapper Too Short. Parks has served on Georgia’s Law School Alumni Council,…