About Jill
Jill Jackson built her legal foundation across two law schools before stepping into North Carolina courtrooms. She attended the University of Minnesota Law School in 1996 and earned her J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1999. Those years set the stage for a career that moved quickly from study to the state’s highest bench.
Early in her career Jackson served as a law clerk to the Honorable Justice Sarah Parker at the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1999. The clerkship placed her at the center of appellate work and exposed her to the processes by which state law is interpreted and clarified. It was a formative year that shaped how she approaches legal argument and written analysis.
Jackson is recognized by the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization as a Board Certified Specialist in Family Law. That certification reflects a measured assessment by the state bar of an attorney’s experience and knowledge in a particular area of practice. It signals that her work has been reviewed through the procedures the board uses to identify specialists.
She practices in North Carolina and is based at Tharrington Smith LLP. Over the course of her career she has handled matters that arise in families and in courtrooms, bringing the procedural and substantive perspectives honed by appellate exposure and specialist certification to bear on cases at the trial level. Colleagues and clients encounter an attorney who combines courtroom experience with an understanding of how appellate rulings affect day-to-day litigation strategy.
Outside of casework, Jackson’s trajectory—law school, a Supreme Court clerkship, and specialist certification—frames a professional profile rooted in state practice and state courts. She remains at Tharrington Smith LLP, where she works on family law matters that include divorce, child custody and related litigation.
