A prominent paralegal with a versatile background in corporate and real estate law, Michelle D. Jackson has demonstrated a commitment to her career through hard work, innovation and adaptability. Since 2025, she has found success as the senior corporate paralegal at Rees Broome, PC, a Virginia-based law firm, where she attends meetings for various transactions, drafts transactional documents, written consents, and articles of merger and resolutions for attorney review, edits documents, compiles closing sets. Committed to bolstering her credentials, she is currently in the process of expanding her skills to such areas of the law to renewable energy, infrastructure, the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA), and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Her responsibilities also include training newer paralegals.
Ms. Jackson’s professional foundation is shaped by her upbringing in a family that deeply valued education and had a long history of military service. Born in Germany, she and her family relocated to the United States when she was four years old in 1970; upon graduating from Mary Baldwin University, with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and government, in 1989, she joined the U.S. Army, where she became the first military officer in her family and served for nearly eight years. It was here that she began her long career as a paralegal, in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, before becoming a commissioned officer and ultimately transitioning to work in the civilian sector. In the midst of her full-time career as a corporate paralegal, she balanced those responsibilities with earning a master’s degree in computer information systems from the University of Phoenix in 2005, which she considers her most notable achievement.
After her military career, Ms. Jackson gained work experience as a legal assistant with McKee Nelson, a Washington, D.C. law firm, for five years before becoming a paralegal with Northrop Grumman from 2005 to 2013. A commissioned Notary Public for Washington, D.C. and Virginia, and a member of the National Notary Association since 2000, she utilized this certification at Northrop Grumman starting in 2011. She was subsequently active as a corporate paralegal with Greenstein DeLorme & Luchs, P.C. from 2013 to 2022, providing legal support to more than 20 lawyers in the areas of corporate, residential and commercial real estate, and litigation.
Ms. Jackson then excelled as a paralegal with A&O Shearman and Allen & Overy prior to joining Rees Broome; in addition to her expertise in a variety of legal areas, she has also accrued decades of excellence in client service and relations. As a testament to her impact in the field, Influential Women recognized her in its prestigious 2025 series, calling her “A Trailblazer in Law and Military Service,” and she earned the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Award for Meritorious Service in 2019.
Beyond her professional responsibilities, Ms. Jackson has long demonstrated a strong commitment to civic engagement. Since 1998, she has served as a Sunday School teacher to children 6 and under, and a mentor to young women, at St. John’s Baptist Church in Virginia, where she also sings in the choir. Guided by the message taught in a Gospel song that “if one can help another, life has not been in vain,” she has empowered young Black girls and challenging discriminatory behaviors through such initiatives as the Black Doll Affair and Next Gen Giving Circle. She strives to demonstrate that God’s love can transcend barriers of economics, race, finances, and all forms of division. In addition, she has volunteered for causes related to veteran support, such as the nonprofit Soldiers’ Angels, since 2018.
Looking ahead, Ms. Jackson envisions herself continuing to work, training not only paralegals but also attorneys, and encouraging them to focus on the law itself. At the same time, she is preparing for retirement, aiming to live life on her own terms and find fulfillment. In her leisure time, she finds joy in reading, cooking, traveling, and listening to music. She is also working on writing a book. She is an aunt to six nieces and nephew, and great-aunt to four.