Janet Thompson Jackson
Associate Professor of Law
"The Washburn environment makes it easy to enjoy teaching. There is a great collegiality among the faculty and a strong commitment to the success of the students. Through the vehicles of classroom teaching, the Law Clinic, and the Centers for Excellence, the faculty works toward the common goal of providing students with a firm foundation in the theoretical and practical applications of the law. I am proud to be a part of that tradition."
J.D., Howard University, 1988
Kerri Pelton
(785) 670-1693
Clinic
Property
Race and the Law
Entrepreneurial Law
Small Business and Transactional Clinic
Janet T. Jackson previously taught at the University of Baltimore School of Law as a Clinical Fellow in the Community Development Clinic and as an Adjunct at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law teaching legal writing and civil rights law. She received her B.A. in Political Science from Wittenberg in 1984 and a J.D. from Howard University School of Law in 1988. Prior to teaching, Jackson was Executive Director of Families Forward in D.C., a nonprofit organization that provides housing and employment services to homeless and low-income families. She was also an attorney at the firm of Cole, Raywid and Braverman L.L.P. in the District of Columbia and an attorney with Buchanan Ingersoll P.C. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jackson also is a mediator and conflict management consultant. She is admitted to practice law in the Maryland Court of Appeals, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Jackson is a member of the American, National and Maryland Bar Associations.
