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Jackson B. Hurst-Sanders

502-681-0415

Jackson B. Hurst-Sanders is a member of the Business Litigation Service Group in the firm’s Louisville, Kentucky office. Prior to joining the firm, Jackson served as a judicial law clerk in the Western District of Kentucky. His time with the federal courts exposed him to a myriad of complex suits involving many different areas of the law. Jackson uses this experience to help his clients navigate confusing and difficult-to-grasp legal conflicts so that a favorable result can be secured as efficiently and effectively as possible.

Bar Admissions
Kentucky
Memberships
Kentucky Bar Association, Member
Louisville Bar Association, Member
Education
J.D., 2023

University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law

  • Kentucky Law Journal, Volume 111, Editor-in-Chief

  • Kentucky Law Journal, Volume 110, Staff Editor

  • Order of the Coif

  • UK Rosenberg Diversity Committee, Student Representative

  • BARBRI, Ambassador

  • Bert Combs Scholarship; Core-Law Diversity/Merit Scholarship

  • CALI Award for Highest Grade in Criminal Law; Criminal Law & Procedure; Federal Courts & Systems; Antitrust Law; Secured Transactions; Criminal Trial Process; and Law & Religion

  • Best Brief Award

  • Best Source & Cite (KLJ) - Weaver Note, Book 1

  • Publication: Equality Can Stick with Bostock: A Call to Expand the Equal Protection Claude to Include Discrimination Against Transgender People's Bathroom Usage, Kentucky Law Journal, 111 KY. L.J. 345 (2023)

B.S., Political Communications, 2017

cum laude

Illinois State Unversity

  • Speech & Debate Team, Impromptu Speaking Chair

  • Dean's List

  • National Forensics Association & American Forensics Nationally Recognized Speaker (Top 24/150)

More Than Stites & Harbison

After law school, Jackson was a judicial law clerk for Judge Hale in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky (2023-24). Prior to joining the firm, he was a summer associate in the Louisville office during the summers of 2021 and 2022 and a legal extern for the Fayette County Attorney's Office (January-May 2022). Jackson also interned for The Honorable Brian C. Edwards of the Jefferson County Circuit Court.

Outside of the firm, Jackson enjoys Marvel movies, fantasy novels, hiking, and hunting with his dogs, Maple and Pepper.