Jenna Matthews has focused her legal education and burgeoning legal career on helping survivors of child abuse and neglect. As a law student at Nashville School of Law, and through her work at Dana Looper Law, she provides trauma-informed, client-centered support that focuses on the dignity and agency of the office’s clients. Jenna’s lived experience drives her empathetic approach and her dedication to elevating the voices of young people the system marginalizes.
Going beyond what is expected of a law student, she volunteers to lead community outreach and guides the office to a more tailored approach to help find equitable solutions to systemic problems. Jenna is a natural leader who embodies the qualities that NACC hopes to see in the next generation of child welfare lawyers.
As Jenna’s nominator wrote: “Her work reflects not just promise, but action—real, sustained action toward a more just and compassionate system for vulnerable children and families…. She brings intelligence, integrity, courage and deep empathy to every facet of her work.”
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