Jerry F. Lee has a Private Law Practice in Cleveland, Georgia, located only five miles from Helen, North Georgia’s Historic Alpine Village. He is a Clayton County native and attended it’s public schools. After military service during the Vietnam War, he attended and is a graduate of both the Clayton State University and the Georgia State University Schools of Criminal Justice and Woodrow Wilson College of Law. He is also a graduate of Harvard Law School’s Graduate Program for Trial Lawyers. Jerry has been active in Georgia State Bar affairs and was appointed by the State Bar President to serve as a Member of the Unlicensed Practice of Law Committee for several years. He has been appointed as a Special Master Judge in land cases by the local Superior Court Judge. He has served as an Assistant in the Fulton County Superior and Juvenile Court, Public Defender’s Office. As a Probation and Parole Supervisor and as an Investigator for the Georgia Pardons and Parole Board, he investigated felony cases including numerous notable death penalty cases. He has served as legal counsel for the Atlanta offices of the Oklahoma Tire and Shock Absorber Manufacturing Company.

Mr. Lee is admitted to practice before all City, Municipal, County and State Trial and Appellate Courts with the State of Georgia. He has argued Appellate matters before both the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Georgia. He is admitted to the Federal Bar and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, as well as the U.S.. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for both the Fifth and Eleventh Federal Circuits covering most of the Southeastern States. He also practices regularly before the Georgia Workers’ Compensation Board, litigating work-related injuries. He was admitted to practice Pro Hac Vice to the Texas District Court of Webb County (Laredo) in Criminal Felony matters.

JERRY F. LEE’S PEERS (OTHER MARTINDALE-HUBBELL RATED ATTORNEYS IN OUR AREA) IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION HAVE SEEN FIT TO BESTOW A BV RATING ON HIS ABILITIES AND ETHICS. THIS RATING HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY, AND HE IS RATED BV WITH, THE MARTINDALE-HUBBELL PEER REVIEW DIRECTORY.

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While in college, Jerry worked for the Georgia Legislative Research Committee for the Peach Officer’s Association of Georgia. His thesis entitled “In Re: Argersinger v. Hamlin” was recognized as the Best Research Paper by the members of the Georgia Association of Criminal Justice Educators. After law school, Jerry also served as a part-time College Instructor.

He is a life-long member of St. John The Evangelist Catholic Church. Jerry is married to Mindy Lee and they have two children, Brittany, a nurse, and Hallye, a student.