Jill’s background has been that of a chameleon.  She came to the firm after having spent eleven years at the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office supervising the Special Victims’ Unit where she was responsible for managing and prosecuting cases involving sexual assaults, domestic violence, and all cases involving children who have been the victims of crime.  Prior to moving to the Midwest, she was a supervisor in the District Attorney’s Office in Tulare, California where she prosecuted crimes involving sexual abuse, white collar crimes, and revamped the asset forfeiture program by writing the guidelines for the Tulare County District Attorney’s Office for future forfeiture cases.  Before entering government work, she owned and ran a real-estate development firm in California that converted apartment buildings in PUDs and condominiums and was the first developer in Tulare County to have a conversion development approved by the local City Council.  She started her career in San Diego as an associate in a plaintiff’s business litigation firm where she specialized in business litigation, construction defect litigation and personal injury cases.

She has extensive courtroom experience having tried numerous jury and bench trials to verdict in multiple jurisdictions. She was the recipient of the Central Valley Arson Investigators Association District Attorney of the Year Award in 2012 after trying the case People of the State of California v. American Fire Protection which was a six-week white collar crime case involving over one-hundred counts in which she successfully obtained guilty verdicts on the majority of charges.  As the Chief of the Special Victims’ Unit for the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office, she successfully led the unit to becoming honored with the 2016 Albert A. Riederer Award as well as the 2019 Laura Curry Sloan Lasting Legacy Award.  She was awarded the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office 2020 Louis Lombardo MVP Attorney of the Year award which award is given to one person each year who has shown strong trial advocacy skills, embraced the unique qualities of a strong prosecutor and exemplified the best quality of this in the practice of law.  She advocated for and implemented a domestic violence diversion program in Jackson County and also was instrumental in organizing a Kids Court for children who are forced to undergo the trauma of testifying against their abusers in court.

When not practicing law, she is devoted to philanthropy and spends time volunteering for various causes including Phoenix Home Care & Hospice, Special Olympics, and the Salvation Army.  She also believes everyone who can, should donate blood as often as possible because of the many lives it saves.