Rhoda Faller is a life member of Hadassah a member of the Hadassah Writers' Circle, and a first generation American on her father’s side, and second on her mother’s side. Raised in Stuyvesant Town, Manhattan, Rhoda attended Hunter College High School, then attended SUNY Stony Brook, graduating with a major in biology and a minor in education. After college, in 1968, she volunteered for a year in the Sherut La’Am Program in Israel in Beit Shemesh. Returning home, she taught biology at Stuyvesant High School for 12 years and received an MA in Educational Administration and Supervision from Pace University. Pursuing a dream of a law degree, she was a contestant on the $10,000 Pyramid game show and won $10,100 the day before she registered at New York Law School. The prize money paid for her entire law school tuition. After passing the New York and New Jersey bar exams, she joined the firm of Fuchsberg and Fuchsberg in New York, handling handled major litigation. Upon moving to Kentucky with her husband Bernard Martin Faller, she and her husband established Kentucky Elder Law, now the largest elder law firm in the state. She and her husband authored Moving the Nest A Midlife Guide to Relocating (Amazon). She has served on six non-profit boards. Now retired, she and her husband reside in the Louisville area. Their son Joe and his wife Angela reside in San Francisco and their son Dan and his wife Erica live in Louisville, where he is a state representative in the Kentucky legislature.
