Jane Morrison entered the practice of law in 1994 upon graduation from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. She initially worked as a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney. Jane was instrumental in founding Stonewall Bar Association, Georgia's gay and lesbian bar association in 1995 and served as the second president of the organization. In 1997, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the national gay and lesbian civil rights law foundation, tapped Jane to open the organization's Southern Regional Office. Jane served as Regional Director for Lambda Legal's operations in the south for three years until returning to the practice of law with a small civil practice firm in Atlanta, McCrary & Associates, P.C.
Jane has practiced exclusively in the State of Georgia for fourteen years and is admitted to all Georgia courts, US District Court, Northern District of Georgia and the US Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. She has served as a part time judge in City of Atlanta Municipal Court and Fulton County Magistrate Court.
Jane is a current adjunct faculty member at Georgia State University College of Law where she teaches the course "Sexual Identity and the Law" on an annual basis. She remains a committed advocate for gay and lesbian legal rights within her practice and throughout the larger community. Jane is now in her second term as a member of Lambda Legal's national Board of Directors. She is a 2001 graduate of Leadership Atlanta and in that same year was honored by Stonewall Bar Association with that organization's Longtime Service to the Community award.
Jane received her Bachelors degree in History and Women's Studies from Boston University in 1987. She previously studied classical trumpet at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and played semi-professionally as a member of a brass quintet. Jane lives in the Martin Luther King Historic District in downtown Atlanta with her partner, community activist Joan Garner.
