Jennifer C. Vermillion

Jennifer C. Vermillion is actively licensed to practice law in the states of Illinois, Louisiana, and the state of Texas, in the US District Court of the Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas, The Northern District of Illinois, the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, and before the Supreme Court of the United States. She currently practices civil litigation, and administrative law of counsel with multiple firms across the nation and also serves as a Special Assistant Attorney General handling transactional real estate matters for governmental entities in Illinois.

Formerly, she spent 14 years practicing probate and fiduciary litigation, trust administration, estate planning, elder law, veterans affairs, and serving as an ad litem attorney in the Dallas County Probate and District Tax Courts. While attending SMU, Jennifer completed an externship with the United States Department of Justice, Tax Division. She is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, State Bar of Texas, Louisiana State Bar Association, and formerly the Dallas Bar Association where she has served as a Chair of the Legal Line Committee and Chair of the Pro Bono Activities Committee. Jennifer also has served as volunteer attorney for the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program and the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, and currently volunteers with the Pro Bono Network in Chicago.

Jennifer has taught as an Affiliate Professor at the UNT Dallas College of Law and from 2018 to the present she has collaborated with Lexis Nexis as an author/editor for the probate volume of the Dorsaneo Texas Litigation Guide.

Jennifer also serves as a private arbitrator for FINRA's Dispute Resolution Services and has served as both consulting and a testifying expert witness on Louisiana law in Texas probate litigation.

JENNIFER HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED WITH THE FOLLOWING AWARDS:

2026 Super Lawyers in Illinois

2022 Super Lawyers Rising Star Selectee
Texas Monthly’s Top Women of Rising Stars 2022
2021 Super Lawyers Rising Star Selectee
Texas Monthly’s Top Women of Rising Stars 2021
2020 Super Lawyers Rising Star Selectee
Texas Monthly’s Top Women of Rising Stars 2020
2019 Super Lawyers Rising Stars Selectee
Texas Monthly’s Outstanding Young Women’s Lawyers of 2018
Super Lawyers 2018 Rising Stars Selectee
Lawyers of Distinction Charter Member
National Advocates Top 40 under 40
Member of the Texas Bar College
Noted as “DVAP’S Finest” Dallas Bar Associations November, 2013 issue of Headnotes
- Honorable mention in the Dallas Bar Association’s monthly publication