Jana Davis Lamanna

Jana Davis Lamanna is a Memphis lawyer with more than 21 years of experience in fertility law, probate, estate planning, family law, and employment matters. Her practice includes assisted reproductive technology, probate administration, probate and trust litigation, divorce, guardianships, and conservatorships. She advises intended parents and gestational carriers on surrogacy arrangements and helps families address legal issues involving donated embryos, eggs, and sperm. Her work combines transactional planning with litigation and court-based advocacy.

Lamanna earned her J.D. from Mississippi College School of Law after spending one year as a visiting student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She received an M.B.A. from Christian Brothers University and a B.A. in English from the University of Mississippi. During law school, she served on the Moot Court Board and participated in the UMKC Trial Team. Her education supports her work involving complex family, probate, business, and fertility-related legal issues.

Lamanna assists intended parents with surrogacy agreements, donor agreements, parentage proceedings, birth certificates, and passports for newborns. She works with individuals and couples, including LGBTQ clients, seeking to form families through assisted reproduction. Her practice extends to estate planning for embryos and disputes involving probate, trusts, estates, and fiduciary responsibilities. She has presented continuing legal education programs on IVF, embryo disposition, surrogacy, adoption, and the intersection of probate and family law.

Jana Davis Lamanna has been recognized as a Mid-South Super Lawyer and by Best Lawyers in America from 2017 through 2025. She became a Fellow of the American Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys in 2021. She serves on the Memphis Bar Foundation Board of Directors and chairs its Fellows Nominations Committee. Her professional involvement includes organizations focused on reproductive medicine, surrogacy ethics, family law, probate, and estate matters.

Law Office Affiliations

• Member, Black McLaren Jones Ryland & Griffee, P.C.
• Member, Tennessee Bar Association
• Member, Missouri Bar Association
• Member of Board of Directors, Memphis Bar Foundation
• Member, American Bar Association, Family Law Section
• Member, Memphis Bar Association
• Fellow, American Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys
• Barrister Member, American Inns of Court, Leo Bearman Chapter

Licensed State

• Tennessee
• Missouri

Education

• Mississippi College School of Law
  Juris Doctorate (JD)
• Christian Brothers University
  Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• University of Mississippi
  BA in English

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