Elizabeth McConahy Jenkins

Elizabeth McConahy Jenkins is the Managing Partner of Jenkins & Wheatley Family Law in Louisville, Kentucky. Nationally ranked as an AV Preeminent® lawyer, Ms. Jenkins provides unmatched counsel and support to clients throughout the greater Louisville metro and surrounding area.   

A 1983 magna cum laude graduate of Colgate University and a former college athlete, Ms. Jenkins led a successful career in business as a foreign currency arbitrageur on the Mercantile Exchange in Chicago, attended classes at the University of Chicago Business School and then worked in the actuarial division for a prominent insurance company.  Upon deciding to pursue her legal career, she attended the University of Virginia School of Law, where she obtained her Juris Doctor in 1992

Along with handling all aspects of divorce, including complex property division, allocation of business interests, child custody and support, Ms. Jenkins prepares effective and comprehensive pre-and postnuptial agreements, wills and other estate planning documents. She also has extensive mediation experience and is regularly appointed by the family court bench as a parenting coordinator in highly contentious child custody proceedings.

Drawing from thirty-three (33) years of legal experience, Ms. Jenkins has a wealth of knowledge and resources to draw from to assist her clients make the best-informed decisions and improve the likelihood of achieving their goals and the favorable outcomes they expect and deserve as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

In honor of her outstanding professionalism and superior client service, Ms. Jenkins has earned an AV Preeminent peer review rating* from Martindale-Hubbell and a listing in the organization's Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers. Moreover, Louisville Magazine has voted her among the Top Lawyers in Family Law in her region, and she has received numerous testimonials and referrals from her satisfied clients.

Ms. Jenkins obtained her Juris Doctor in 1992 and was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 1992, and the Kentucky Bar Association and the Bar of the District of Columbia in 1995. Ms. Jenkins is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, the Virginia Supreme Court and the Kentucky Supreme Court.

Ms. Jenkins is a member of the Women Lawyers Association, the Louisville Bar Association and the Jefferson County Family Court Divorce Practice Group, as well as life fellow with the Kentucky Bar Association and the Louisville Bar Association where she has also served as chair of the organization's Family Law Section.

*AV®, AV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell® is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating™ fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.