Jenny M. Jourdonnais

Jenny M. Jourdonnais is a founding partner of Hansberry & Jourdonnais, PLLC in Missoula, Montana. Jenny focuses on creditors’ rights, banking, finance, secured transactions, real estate, and general commercial litigation. The practice serves national and regional banks, credit unions, businesses, and other clients dealing with lending, secured transactions, property, and commercial disputes and includes banking and finance matters, creditors’ rights, secured transactions, real estate issues, and commercial litigation.

Jenny earned a J.D. from the University of Montana School of Law in 2011 and a B.S. in Business Administration and Finance with High Honors from Montana State University in 1998, and also attended the Pacific Coast School of Banking from 2009 to 2010. Her education builds on a decade of financial-services experience and gives her both legal and banking context for commercial and lending matters.

Jenny worked in financial services before law school, including vice president roles at Wells Fargo Bank and Big Sky Western Bank, and later practiced at Garlington, Lohn & Robinson before co-founding her current firm in 2014. Her prior banking experience informs work involving secured credit, lender rights, financial transactions, real estate, and disputes arising from commercial relationships.

Jenny M. Jourdonnais has served as a founding partner while maintaining professional memberships in the American Bankruptcy Institute and State Bar of Montana. Her combination of banking and legal experience provides practical perspective for financial institutions and businesses navigating lending, collateral, and commercial disputes. In creditors’ rights matters, Jenny combines legal analysis with practical judgment and focuses on clear advice, organized preparation, and the issues most relevant to the client.

Law Office Affiliations

• Founding Partner, Hansberry & Jourdonnais, PLLC
• Member, State Bar of Montana (2011-Present)
• Member, American Bankruptcy Institute (2011-Present)

Licensed State

• Montana

Education

• University of Montana School of Law
  J.D.
• Montana State University
  B.S.

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