Biography
Jackie Wheeler Davis is a wealth planning attorney in Jackson Walker’s Dallas office. Her practice serves clients with matters pertaining to wealth planning, estate and trust administration, and tax exempt organizations. While at Jackson Walker, Jackie has worked on a wide range of individual and family wealth planning settings where she focuses on developing customized, efficient solutions for the various issues that her clients face. Her experience ranges from planning for the disposition of small simple estates to planning for management and disposition of complex estates including the drafting and implementation of family limited liability entities, management trusts, and other taxable and nontaxable gift transactions. In the tax exempt area, Jackie has worked with public charities and private foundations in issues involving establishment, qualification, governance and administration.
Prior to joining Jackson Walker, Jackie spent time practicing in the areas of fiduciary and commercial litigation in the Dallas area.
Education
B.B.A., Texas Christian University
- Student Body President (2011)
- Student Body Vice President (2010)
J.D., Baylor School of Law
- Order of Barristers
- American Association of Justice & Employment Law Mock Trial Teams
- Bob and Karen Wortham Practice Court Mock Trial Competition, 3rd place; Fraley & Fraley Mock Trial Award
- Pace Environment Moot Court Team
Certified Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP)
Bar Admissions
Texas, 2015
Court Admissions
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
United States District Court for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (Woodward/White Inc.), Trusts and Estates, 2021-2022
- Texas Rising Star, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2022
- “Best Lawyers in Dallas” List, Tax: Trusts and Estates, D Magazine, 2021
- Dallas Bar Association
- Dallas Estate Planning Council (DEPC)
- State Bar of Texas