Debra D. Owen

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Debra D. Owen joined the firm after serving seven years as staff attorney for the Jackson-Madison County School System.  She is also a licensed secondary teacher with twenty-eight years of classroom experience.  Counseling and representing school systems in special education issues is the focus of her practice.

Debra graduated with honors from Union University, holds two graduate degrees, with honors,  from Memphis State University (now University of Memphis), and earned her Doctor of Jurisprudence degree, with honors, in 2001 from the Nashville School of Law.  Ms. Owen is a member of the Madison County and Tennessee Bar Associations, NSBA Council of School Attorneys, Tennessee Council of School Board Attorneys, and Lawyer’s Association for Women.  She has presented for school administrators and/or attorneys on topics including No Child Left Behind, Family Medical Leave Act, Budgeting, Cultural Diversity, Brown v. Board of Education, Workplace Investigations, Managing Employee Performance, Managing Student Records, Public Records Management and the Education Professionals Negotiations Act.

Debra and her husband enjoy activities with family and friends and participate actively in the ministries of Jackson First United Methodist Church.  They also enjoy boating, bicycling and visiting zoos, aquariums and animal sanctuaries.