Jessica Reece Fagan of Hedgepeth, Heredia & Rieder Named 2017 Rising Star in Family Law

Family law firm Hedgepeth, Heredia & Rieder announced today that attorney Jessica Reece Fagan has been recognized as a 2017 “Rising Star” in the area of Family Law. The list is compiled by Super Lawyers, a rating service of outstanding lawyers under the age of 40 who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The listing appears in the March 2017 issue of Atlanta magazine.

Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys.

Each year, no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor.

Fagan joined HHR in 2012 and was named a partner in 2016. Her list of professional accolades and accomplishments also includes:

• Active member of the Young Lawyer’s Division of the State Bar of Georgia
• Active member of Lawyers Club of Atlanta (Social Co-Chair and Member of the Long Range Planning Committee)
• Co-chaired the YLD Signature Fundraiser, 2015
• Award of Achievement from the YLD at the annual meeting of the State Bar of Georgia, 2015
• Former co-editor of the DeKalb Bar Association Newsletter, which received a best legal newsletter award under her direction.
• Member, Georgia Association of Women Lawyers
• Member, Family Law, Council of Younger Lawyers and Women in the Profession Sections of the Atlanta Bar Association
• Member, Family Law Section and Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Georgia
• Board Member, Georgia Organics
• Past Member, Board of Directors for Westside Community Group for Community Farmers Markets
• Board President of Generation Green of the Georgia Conservancy (2012-2014),
• Board of Trustees for the Georgia Conservancy (2012-2014)
• Past Member, Board of Directors for The Wylde Center

Fagan received her undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Georgia, cum laude, and her J.D. degree, with honors, from Georgia State University. While in law school, she received Honors Distinction in Litigation, was a member of Phi Alpha Delta, the Student Trial Lawyers Association and on the Moot Court Board. She is admitted before the Supreme Court of Georgia, all Superior and State Courts of Georgia and the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia. Prior to practicing at HHR, Fagan practiced at the international law firm of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP.

She lives with her husband Will in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta.

About Hedgepeth, Heredia & Rieder
Hedgepeth, Heredia & Rieder (HHR) is an Atlanta-based family law practice. The firm’s founding partners — Jon Hedgepeth, Hannibal Heredia and Rebecca Crumrine Rieder — are three of Georgia’s most highly regarded and respected attorneys in family law. Their areas of expertise include divorce and separation, custody, support, property division, paternity, prenuptial/postnuptial agreements, adoption and alternative reproduction.