Jill represents numerous public school boards of education, private educational institutions, and colleges and universities on a wide range of education issues and in litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts. She has advised and/or litigated on all aspects of education and the business of education, including school board mergers, policy generation, funding disputes, civil rights issues, student conduct issues, school assignment, teacher tenure and dismissal, general employment, personal injury, construction and public contracting, and First Amendment issues. 

Jill is the counsel for the North Carolina School Board Trust and a frequent presenter at the University of North Carolina School of Government, formerly the North Carolina Institute of Government, the Principals' Executive Program, and the North Carolina School Board Association.

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Selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© in Education Law (2008-2020); Employment Law - Management (2016-2020)

Recognized in North Carolina Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters) in Schools & Education Law (2006-2011, 2018-2019); Top 50 Female Lawyer (2008-2009)

Included in the American City Business Journals' Influencers: Law list (2018)

Named one of Triad Business Journal's "Outstanding Women in Business" (2018)

Ann Majestic Award for Distinguished Service, presented by the Education Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association (2017)

Women of Justice Award, 2012, presented by Lawyers Weekly North Carolina 2012

Member, Litigation and Insurance Section, American Bar Association

President, North Carolina Council of School Attorneys (2002)

Chair, Greensboro Young Lawyers

Chair, Friends of the Jackson Library, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Chair, Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art

Dinner Chair, National Conference of Community and Justice (NCCJ) (2002)

Member, National Conference of Community and Justice

Jill has published on a vast array of topics dealing with public education.

Recent Publications & Media

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Report Crimes Against Children – It’s the Law

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February 10, 2020
By enacting Session Law 2019-245, the North Carolina General Assembly imposed new broad-sweeping requirements to protect children, making failure to report certain criminal acts perpetrated against children a crime. The new law mandates that any...(read more)

Speaking Engagements

Recognitions

The 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America © recognized 55 Brooks Pierce attorneys as industry...(read more)
Forty-four Brooks Pierce attorneys have been recognized in the 2019 edition of North Carolina Super...(read more)
The 2019 edition of The Best Lawyers in America © recognized 55 Brooks Pierce attorneys as industry...(read more)
Brooks Pierce partner Jill Wilson has been named to The Business Journals’ Influencers: Law, a...(read more)
Thirty-eight Brooks Pierce attorneys have been recognized in the 2018 edition of North Carolina...(read more)
The 2018 edition of The Best Lawyers in America © recognized 54 Brooks Pierce attorneys as industry...(read more)
The 2017 edition of The Best Lawyers in America © recognized 50 Brooks Pierce attorneys as industry...(read more)
The 2016 edition of The Best Lawyers in America © recognized 48 Brooks Pierce attorneys as industry...(read more)
The 2015 edition of The Best Lawyers in America© recognized 46 Brooks Pierce attorneys as industry...(read more)
Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP is pleased to announce that 46 lawyers were...(read more)
Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP is pleased to announce that 45 lawyers,...(read more)
Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP is pleased to announce that 34 lawyers,...(read more)
The Best Lawyers in America Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP is pleased to...(read more)
Eighteen Brooks Pierce Attorneys Named as North Carolina Super Lawyers Brooks, Pierce, McLendon,...(read more)
Three attorneys recognized in "Top 100" North Carolina Super Lawyers Brooks Pierce is pleased to...(read more)

Recent Publications & Media

Close up of cop car lights

Report Crimes Against Children – It’s the Law

Insight
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February 10, 2020
By enacting Session Law 2019-245, the North Carolina General Assembly imposed new broad-sweeping requirements to protect children, making failure to report certain criminal acts perpetrated against children a crime. The new law mandates that any...(read more)

Jill Wilson Joins Brooks Pierce Management Committee

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January 27, 2016
Brooks Pierce has selected Jill Wilson, a partner in the firm’s Greensboro office, to join its six-person management committee. Wilson, who has been widely recognized as one of the state’s top education attorneys, has been a partner at Brooks Pierce...(read more)