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Roberts & Stevens is pleased to welcome Jillian W. Ballard to the
firm.Ballard is an associate attorney who practices transactional
commercial and residential Real Estate law. She works closely with realtors,
banks, homeowners, and homebuyers in Western North Carolina. Jillian
spent three summers as a law clerk at Roberts & Stevens before becoming an
attorney in 2014, and is proud to call the firm home.
Ballard graduated from the Brandeis School of Law at the
University of Louisville in Kentucky, where she excelled both as a member of
the school's flagship journal, the University of Louisville Law Review, and as
a member of the Negotiation Team, which she led to the national competition in
2013. Jillian also organized a community outreach program that partnered with
an inner-city high school to help students better their writing and vocabulary
skills and won two Outstanding Student Awards for her efforts.
Prior to law school, Ballard worked as a high school German
teacher in the Middle Tennessee Public Schools System. While there she met her
husband, John, who currently teaches Band at West McDowell Junior High in
Marion. She continues to value the importance of teachers, public schools, and
their success.
Ballard graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville,
Tennessee, where she was a member of Alpha Phi Omega, a community service
fraternity which requires 30 hours of community service each semester. She grew
up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She loves to travel and to donate her time
and expertise to community service organizations and projects.
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