Gretchen A. Jackson

Ms. Jackson focuses her practice on transportation litigation, tort defense, business litigation and construction law. She has extensive experience investigating, preparing, and trying a wide variety of complex disputes to verdict before judge and jury in all forms of civil trial practice. Ms. Jackson served ten years as an attorney in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. During her Army career, she accumulated significant trial experience as a prosecutor and senior prosecutor. She tried numerous jury and bench trials, including several high profile murder cases. In her final assignment, she served as a Professor of International and Operational Law at the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia. There she taught military and civilian lawyers intelligence law and interrogation operations, legal aspects of information warfare, and the legal implications of military support to civilian authorities and disaster relief efforts. Awards and Honors Honors Best Lawyers in America, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, 2024

• Senior Of Counsel

• U.S. Army, 1996 - 2006
• United States Army Judge Advocate General’s School, Charlottesville, Virginia, International and Operational Law Professor
• United States Army Europe and Seventh Army, Heidelberg, Germany, Ethics Counselor
• V Corps, Heidelberg, Germany, Senior Prosecutor
• V Corps, Heidelberg, Germany and Task Force Falcon, Kosovo, Administrative and Operational Law Attorney
• III Corps, Fort Hood, Texas, Senior Prosecutor
• 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, Administrative Law Attorney and Division Tax Officer

• Virginia, 1995
• Illinois
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. District Court Western District of Virginia
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia

• Virginia Bar Association
• Charlottesville Area Bar Association
• Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys