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Nancy Ingram Jordan

Brock, Clay, Calhoun & Rogers, P.C.
49 Atlanta Street
Marietta, Georgia 30060

Phone: 770-422-1776

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Mrs. Jordan is a member of the Litigation Practice Group at Brock Clay. Her practice includes general civil litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts. Mrs. Jordan also represents local governments in licensing issues. She is involved in litigation involving the various school districts the firm represents.

Mrs. Jordan received her Juris Doctor in May, 1982 from Emory University. She joined the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office where she worked for fifteen years, the last thirteen years of which she specialized in criminal appellate practice. During her tenure as a prosecutor, Mrs. Jordan regularly appeared before the Supreme Court of Georgia, and on occasion, the Georgia Court of Appeals. Mrs. Jordan has authored or co-authored between 300 and 400 appellate briefs and has argued in the Georgia Supreme Court and Georgia Court of Appeals in more than 60 cases. She has argued several cases of first impression in Georgia before the appellate courts. In 1999, Mrs. Jordan received the Regional Vice President’s Award from the Association of Government Attorneys in Capital Litigation.

Mrs. Jordan left the district attorney’s office to enter the private practice of law where she continued her appellate practice in criminal and civil law, as well as civil litigation in government matters and criminal defense matters. She has appeared on behalf of Cobb County in certiorari appeals to the superior court and on behalf of Cobb County and Sandy Springs in civil litigation before the Northern District of Georgia and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals regarding adult entertainment and licensing issues.

Mrs. Jordan has taught at the North Georgia Police Academy, at the Emory Trial Techniques Program, and made various presentations at seminars sponsored by the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia; the Local Government Law Section, State Bar of Georgia; the Cobb Bar Association’s Criminal Defense Section and its CLE Program on Appellate Practice.


Professional and Community Involvement

  • State Bar of Georgia, Member, Appellate Section, Criminal Law Section
  • Admitted to practice in the Georgia Supreme Court, Georgia Court of Appeals,
  • United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia, United States Eleventh Circuit Court  of
  • Appeals and the United States Supreme Court
  • Cobb County Bar Association, Treasurer, Secretary, Program Chair, Trustee at Large,
  • Law Day Chair, Member of Criminal Defense Section, Trial Lawyers Section,
  • Family Law Section, Solo Practitioner's Section (2004-2008)
  • Atlanta Bar Association
  • Campaign Chair, 2004 Election, Court of Appeals Judge Debra H. Bernes
  • Board of Marietta Schools Foundation, 1989-1992
  • Emory Law Alumni Association (1989-1992); Secretary-Treasurer, 1990
  • Emory University Law School Young Alumni Council, Co-chairman,1986-1989
  • Emory University Law School Student  Bar President, 1982 (first female president)
  • First Presbyterian Church, Member, 1988; Kindergarten Board Chairman, 1990
  • Junior Leagues of Atlanta and Cobb-Marietta, 1983-1988
  • Leadership Cobb Class of 1984-1985 (various leadership roles as active alumni member)
  • West Side Elementary School PTA, 1991-1994

PRACTICE AREAS

Civil Litigation

Appellate Litigation

EDUCATION

Emory University School of Law, J.D. 

LICENSED TO PRACTICE

Georgia

PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

State Bar of Georgia – Appellate Section, Criminal Law Section

Cobb County Bar Association
Atlanta Bar Association