the 2024 President of Orange County REALTORS® Installed as President on November 30, Jeffrey Jackson has long been interested in politics, government, law, and real estate. He believes that Orange County REALTORS® deserve an ear that listens to their concerns regarding the state of the industry today and the direction it may go in the future and a voice that speaks for them in addressing these concerns. His extensive education and experience in both law and real estate have prepared him to be that ear and that voice. By Sherri Butterfield WRITER AND EDITOR Jeffrey Jackson was born and predominantly raised in Indiana but spent his junior high and high school years in Celina, Ohio, where he graduated in 1976 from Celina Senior High School. For a time, he attended Miami University in Ohio before transferring to Indiana University in Bloomington. Long interested in politics, government, and the law, Jeffrey earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Indiana University in Bloomington in 1980. Two years later, he graduated from Indiana University’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs with a Master of Arts in Public Administration and went to Washington, D.C., where he spent four years working on Capitol Hill and for various trade associations.
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Next, Jeffrey returned to Indiana, where he served as a staff member for Lieutenant Governor John Mutz and then worked as Director of Grant Administration for a leading architectural and engineering firm before entering the Robert H. McKinney Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. Jeffrey received his Juris Doctor in 1995. After being admitted to the Indiana State Bar, he served as City Attorney for Seymour, Indiana, from 1998 to 2001. Jeffrey was also in private practice in Southern Indiana from 1998 until 2010, focusing on bankruptcy, criminal, family, and real estate law. In 2010, Jeffrey moved from Indiana to California, where he settled in Orange County and began serving as a legal consultant to various law firms.
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