Karen L. Jennings
907-373-3722
Ms. Jennings has been licensed to practice law since 1982 when her first attorney years were spent as a felony prosecutor and defense attorney in New Mexico. After spending three years as a private attorney in Texas where she completed almost 300 felony cases, she joined the United States Navy as a member of the Judge Advocate General's Corps. While in the Navy, she was assigned to Subic Bay Naval Base, to ship duty during Desert Storm and to NAS Adak as the Staff Judge Advocate. Although she spent a year as an environmental attorney for the U.S. Air Force and another year as an Assistant Public Advocate, for most of the last sixteen years, Attorney Jennings has been in private practice, doing primarily family law, child-in-need of aid cases, juvenile delinquent defense, and criminal defense work (in state and federal court). She has been a hearing officer in Texas, in the Navy, and for the Mat-Su Borough in Alaska.
Areas of Practice
- Family Law
- Divorce
- Custody & Visitation
- Military Divorces
Bar Admissions
- Alaska, 1992
- U.S. District Court District of New Mexico, 1983
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 1990
Education
- University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Juris Doctor - 1982
- Honors: Student Bar Association Representative
- Law Journal: Natural Resources Journal (With a Public Mining Taxation Article also), Editorial Board, 1981 - 1982
- Wells College, Aurora, New York
- B.A. (Cum Laude) - 1978
- Honors: Dean's List
- Honors: Honor Roll
- Honors: Teacher's Assistant Economics Department
- Honors: Student Honor Court
- Major: Economics, Secondary Ed. Certification (Senior Grade)
- Schiller College, Heidelberg, Germany
- Study Abroad Program - 1977
- Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary
- M.A. - in progress
- Major: Religion (Biblical Studies)
Past Employment Positions
- Office of Public Advocacy (AK), Assistant Public Advocacy, 2006 - 2007
- U.S.A.F., Environmental Attorney, 1994 - 1995
- U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General's Corps, Lieutenant, 1989 - 1993
- Law Office of Karen Jennings, Solo Practitioner, 1986 - 1989
- NM Public Defender, Asst. Public Defender, 1986
- Moeller & Burnham, Associate Attorney, 1986
- District Attorney (10th and 11th Judicial Districts NM), Assistant District Attorney, 1982 - 1986
Ancillary Businesses
- Hearing Officer for the City of Wasilla
- Hearing Officer for Mat-Su Borough
