Meet Your Neighbor, Jill Rosenthal
JILL ROSENTHAL
By Rudy Arispe | Photography by Lynn Yao
For the past eight months, Jill Rosenthal has been working on developing a mean upper cut and a wicked jab.
“Don’t mess with me!” Jill said with a laugh regarding the weekly boxing lessons she takes at Leija Boxing x Fitness on Broadway. “It’s a lot of fun and a great way to keep in shape.”
It’s that fighting spirit, in fact, that has helped Jill along the way in her decades-long work with fundraising for countless nonprofit organizations and having what it takes to ask for charitable donations. So, if her name sounds familiar, it’s likely that you heard it before through her involvement with a dozen or so local charities over the years.
“I enjoy talking to people and helping others,” she said. “I also enjoy challenges, and I’m not afraid to ask corporations for money to help support a nonprofit in their mission. All they can do is say ‘yes.’ ”
Since moving here in 1994, Jill Rosenthal, a former pre-school teacher, and her husband, Bobby, have been a fixture of the Alamo Heights neighborhood and social scene for years, which she jokingly likens to “Mayberry,” the fictitious, small-town community of the popular 1960s-70s TV series starring Andy Griffith.
“Everybody knows everybody. It’s like we’re all family,” she said, adding that she is grateful to have her mom, Sandra Rosenberg, as her neighbor.
As you very well may know already, Bobby was mayor of Alamo Heights for eight years until his retirement in May 2025. Today, he is a real estate attorney for Rosenthal, Pauerstein, Sandoloski Agather (RPSA) LLP. At RPSA, Bobby offers clients extensive experience in commercial real estate, lending, and other public finance matters, advising developers, investors, and non-profit institutions in the purchase, sale, lease, finance, development, and improvement of commercial real estate. Rosenthal also represents regional, national and international financial institutions with loan transactions, according to the firm’s website.
Graduates of UT Austin, Jill and Bobby are proud that all three of their children – Justin, 33; Blake, 30; and Aubrey, 27 – are also Longhorns. Blake is married to Brittany Rosenthal, and the couple has a daughter, Scarlett.
In addition to assisting with business development for Alamo Title, Jill continues to work tirelessly on behalf of several nonprofits by serving on committees and raising funds, mainly at the moment for Charity Ball, Fiesta Battle of Flowers, and Children’s Association for Maximum Potential. But her resume of nonprofit work includes Dress for Success, Children’s Bereavement Center of South Texas, San Antonio Food Bank, Respite Care, Animal Defense League, SNIPSA, Cancer Therapy & Research Center, and the Doseum, among others.
Bobby, meanwhile, helped achieve many accomplishments for the city during his time as mayor and councilmember. Under his leadership, a new City Hall was constructed to house all city employees; the Alamo Heights pool underwent major repairs and upgrades; new signage, street lighting and other beautification projects were completed; and the city maintained one of the lowest tax rates of all cities in Bexar County, among other achievements.
