Overview
Jessica is an associate in the Real Estate and Land Use Group. She joins Connell Foley after serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Dara A. Govan of the New Jersey Superior Court. In that role, she authored draft opinions for criminal proceedings and independently mediated pre-trial special civil disputes. She also served as a Federal Judicial Intern to the Honorable Jamel J. Semper in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
While in law school, Jessica was a Coordinator of Policy and Research for the Office of New Jersey Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson and while in college, she was a Congressional Intern for Senator Cory Booker.
Activities
Former Alumni Director, Northeast Region of the National Black Law Student Association
Black Entertainment Sports Law Association
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
Garden State Bar Association
Practice Areas
Clerkships
- Law clerk to the Honorable Dara A. Govan, Superior Court of New Jersey
Education
Rutgers Law School (J.D., 2025)
- President, Rutgers Association of Black Law Student
- Editor-in-Chief, Race and the Law Review
Rutgers University (M.P.P., 2021)
Rutgers University (B.A. cum laude, 2019)
Admissions
- New Jersey
Languages
- French Creole (advanced)
- French (intermediate)
- Spanish (beginner)
- American Sign Language (beginner)
