Richard J. Taylor

State of North Carolina AOC Certified Spanish Language Interpreter

Mecklenburg County NC Public Defender Office RETIRED

Wesley Chapel, FL 33543


Languages English, Spanish

Interpreter Specialties Consecutive, Liaison, Immigration, Diplomatic, Court/Legal, Conference, Telephone/Remote, Simultaneous, General

Translator Specialties Translation, Proofreading, Dubbing/Subtitling, General

States Certified (or equivalent official designation by the State Office of Administration) North Carolina

Professional Information

Spanish Language Court Interpreter Certified by the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts - Office of Language Access Services - since 2007. As well as a North Carolina Bar Certified Paralegal, also since 2007. Employed full time by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Defender Office as its Spanish language interpreter and translator from 9/24/2007 until retirement 7/1/2025.


Company Information

Presently self-employed - as of 7/12/25 - out of Wesley Chapel (Tampa suburb), Florida.


Something You Should Know

I am US Citizen born abroad in Sao Paulo, Brazil and raised throughout Spanish Latin America in a Spanish-speaking home, of a naturalized American Salvadorean mother and a native-born American Spanish fluent father. I am certified fluent in spoken and written Spanish legalese & English legalese and can speak conversational Portuguese. I am a graduate of Michigan State University with a B.A. in TV & Radio Communication Arts, and the first 25 years of my career was spent in Spanish language TV & Radio Advertising Sales and voiceover acting in L.A., New York & Miami.