Keon Hardemon

Keon Hardemon is a Florida attorney and a Miami-Dade County Commissioner, where he was elected with nearly 68% of the vote. He maintains his own law practice at The Law Offices of Keon Hardemon, P.A.. He values the experience of protecting our Constitutional guarantees and our most cherished right—our right to freedom.

He served as an Assistant Public Defender at the Law Offices of the Public Defender, Carlos Martinez where he has represented hundreds of clients. Remarkably, Keon won each case he defended while at the Public Defender’s Office in the felony division.

Keon Hardemon graduated from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University with a Bachelors Degree in Business Management and a Masters in Business Administration. . 

Keon graduated from law school at the University of Miami School of Law (UM). At the University of Miami, he served as the Symposia Editor for the University of Miami Black Law Review; two-term Parliamentarian for the Student Bar Association; research assistant for a law professor; Fellow for the University of Miami Center for Ethics and Public Service; and Vice-President of the University of Miami Black Law Students Association. He taught high school students about Constitutional Law through the nationally recognized Street Law Program; helped provide indigent children with civil representation in court while interning at the Legal Aid Service of Broward County; researched ineffective assistance of counsel cases while interning with a Federal Magistrate in the United States Southern District Court; and assisted in the legal representation of indigent people charged with Federal crimes at the Federal Public Defender’s Office.

At UM, Keon was a Dean’s Honor Scholarship Recipient; Dean’s Public Interest Scholarship Recipient; and regional semi-finalist at the Regional Black Law Students Association Mock Trial Competition. Most notably, he was recognized for successfully arguing mitigating evidence in a capital case that saved a man from the death penalty. This was remarkable considering that Florida is the second largest death row state in America. Despite participating in the aforementioned plethora of activities, Keon was able to graduate from law school a semester earlier than his classmates. Immediately after graduating, he began studying for the Florida Bar and passed it on his first attempt. He was officially a barred attorney before his fellow classmates had even graduated from law school.

Keon previously served as a Miami City Commissioner from November 2013 through November 2020, initially elected with nearly 75% of the overall vote.