Jennifer Franklin attended Regent University School of Law where she graduated summa cum laude and was the internal articles editor on the Regent University Law Review. She clerked for Chief Justice Perry Hooper on the Alabama Supreme Court, after which she spent one year in a teaching fellowship at Regent University helping to develop the Academic Success program and teaching Appellate Advocacy, and Legal Reasoning, Analysis and Writing. She then joined the Virginia Attorney General's Office as an Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Litigation Section, and continued to teach Appellate Advocacy as an adjunct. After three years and 75 appeals, she joined the Chief Staff Attorney's Office as the Habeas Supervisor for the Supreme Court of Virginia where she handled thousands of habeas corpus cases. Each summer, she enjoys volunteering and role playing in local police officer survival trainings.