Jennifer Coats Covellis Attorney at Law
Jennifer Coats Covellis is an attorney with Karnes Legal Services. She joined our legal family in 2010 as a Summer intern and then full time in 2011 after graduating law school. Jennifer practices mostly in family law, focusing on adoptions, child custody, divorce, and estate planning. She has always had a love of children, so she devotes quite a bit of her practice to Juvenile Law as well serving as a Guardian ad Litem.
Jennifer is born and raised in Jackson, Tennessee. After graduating from North Side High School, she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee and then graduated from Mississippi College School of Law where she was in the top ten percent of her class.
Outside of work, Jennifer enjoys spending time with her husband, Chris, and their two children.
Education
Mississippi College School of Law, Jackson, MS
Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Honors Graduate
Magna Cum Laude, Best Paper Award Legal Writing
Dean’s List
Property Award for the Mississippi State Bar
Undergraduate:
Honor Society,
Member Political Science Honor Society,
Who’s Who Among College Students
Experience
Karnes Legal Services, Attorneys at Law, Jackson, Tennessee
Intern, May 2010 – May 2011
Karnes Legal Services, Attorneys at Law, Jackson, Tennessee
Judicial Extern, May 2009-August 2009
Judge James D. Todd, United States District Court
Intern, January 2008-May 2008
Marty McAfee, Attorney at Law, Memphis, Tennessee
Intern, August 2007-December 2007
Autumn B. Chastain, Attorney at Law, Memphis, Tennessee
Activities
Certified Guardian Ad Litem, 2010-Present
Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity, Member, 2008-Present
Chi Omega Sorority, Member, 2004-Present
First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, member
