For Jenny Holt Teeter, finding a lifelong legal home was about finding her people.
Teeter, a shareholder and director at Little Rock’s Gill Ragon Owen, began her journey at the firm as a law clerk while attending the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law. Nearly two decades later, she remains deeply rooted in the firm’s client-first, highly collaborative culture.
“It’s definitely the culture,” Teeter said. “We work hard, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. I found my people here. John Gill, our founder, who recently passed away — shared a wall with me for 15 years. When he started this firm, he wanted a place where we could have fun and know each other as people, not just lawyers.”
That supportive environment fueled Teeter’s early ambitions. A self-described hard worker who began her first job at age 15, she threw herself into her legal career with relentless energy, making partner at just 30 years old, a year after the birth of her first child.
“Making partner changed me in that I started to see how my hard work directly impacted both me and my clients,” she said. “Understanding how a business operates from the inside made me a much better lawyer. When I advise corporate clients today, I truly understand their operational side.”
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