Jacqueline Mayer Grant

Jacqueline Mayer Grant is an attorney with Mayer Law PLLC in Newport, Kentucky, where her practice focuses on criminal defense. Her career includes experience inside prosecution offices and the courts before she moved into defense work. She has handled criminal matters from multiple professional perspectives, giving her familiarity with how cases are investigated, charged, litigated, and evaluated by prosecutors, judges, and defense counsel.

Grant studied Economics Prelaw at Ohio University with an Art minor and later attended the University of Kentucky College of Law. While pursuing her legal education, she completed internships with the Fayette County Commonwealth Attorney and a judicial externship with Judge James D. Ishmael. Her training combined classroom study with direct exposure to prosecution and judicial work, creating an early foundation in criminal procedure, evidence, and courtroom practice.

Grant began her legal career as a staff attorney to Judge Ishmael in Fayette Circuit Court. She later worked in General Prosecution for the Fayette County Attorney, where she handled hearings, trials, and appeals. After prosecution work, she transitioned into criminal defense and spent several years at a firm where her practice focused primarily on sex crime defense. That experience now informs her representation of people facing criminal accusations in Kentucky.

Jacqueline Mayer Grant is active in professional organizations including the Kentucky Bar Association, Northern Kentucky Bar Association, Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and Salmon P. Chase Inn of Court. Her professional record combines judicial, prosecutorial, and defense experience. She continues to represent criminal defendants while applying practical knowledge developed across several stages of the criminal justice system.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Mayer Law PLLC
• Young Lawyers Division, Health and Wellness Chair, Kentucky Bar Association
• Young Lawyers Section, Executive Committee, Northern Kentucky Bar Association
• Member, Salmon P. Chase American Inn of Court
• Member, Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
• Member, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Licensed State

• Kentucky

Education

• Ohio University
  studied Economics Prelaw and obtained an Art minor

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