Jacqueline Dixon, shareholder in the Nashville office, is a trial lawyer with over 40 years of experience in all aspects of family law, including divorce, custody and adoption; wills, estates, conservatorships, and probate litigation; personal injury; and, general civil litigation as well as appellate work. She is also a Tennessee Supreme Court listed family law mediator. She currently serves as board chair of the TLAP (Tennessee Lawyers Assistance Program) Foundation. She has previously served several terms on the Tennessee Supreme Court’s TLAP Commission.  She is a past president of the Tennessee Bar Association and the Tennessee Lawyers Association for Women. Jackie currently gives back to the community by serving on the boards of two non-profit organizations:  A Step Ahead Foundation of Middle Tennessee, a provider of free long-acting reversible birth control, where she is a founding board member and past board president; and, First Steps, Inc., a provider of education and care for special needs children alongside their typically developing peers.

AFFILIATIONS

• American Bar Association
• Lawyers’ Association for Women
• Nashville Bar Association
• Tennessee Bar Association

PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

• Nashville Business Journal Best of the Bar Family Law
• Nashville Bar Association Joseph G. Cummings Pro Bono Volunteer of the Year
• Tennessee Bar Association, President’s Award
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• Fellow, Tennessee Bar Foundation, and Board Treasurer
• Fellow, Nashville Bar Foundation
• Listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers
• Tennessee Lawyers Assistance Program Commission, Vice-Chair
• American Bar Association, current member, House of Delegates
• Harry Phillips Inn American Inns of Court
• Nashville Bar Association
  • Former Board of Directors
  • President Young Lawyers Division, 1992
• Tennessee Bar Association, President, 2012-2013
• Tennessee Lawyer’s Association for Women, President, 2006-2007

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