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.