Jana McConnaughhay is Board Certified in Elder Law by the Florida Bar. She is a Tallahassee native, who received a B.A. in Accounting, with honors, from Furman University and her J.D. from the Vanderbilt University School of Law, where she won the K. Harlan Dodson Moot Court Award for outstanding service to the Moot Court program. Ms. McConnaughhay is a past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Elder Law Section of the Florida Bar.  She currently serves on the Elder Law Section’s Certification Committee (former Chair) and is a volunteer guardian ad litem through the Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office for the Second Circuit. Ms. McConnaughhay’s previous professional and community service includes the Boards of Directors of the Big Bend Office of the Public Guardian (Chair), Gilchrist School Advisory Committee (Chair), Elder Law Section (Substantive Chair, Administrative Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Chair), Tallahassee Bar Association (Secretary), School of Arts and Sciences (Finance Chair), and the Academy of Florida Elder Law Attorneys. She also served on the Grievance Committee for the Second Judicial Circuit (Chair), as a volunteer with the United Way’s Reading Pal program, and was a member of Leadership Tallahassee’s Class 16. Ms. McConnaughhay has been designated as one of Florida’s Legal Elite by Florida Trend, a designation achieved by fewer than 1.5% of Florida’s attorneys overall. Ms. McConnaughhay has also been named a Florida Super Lawyer, a designation achieved by fewer than 5% of Florida’s attorneys.  She is “AV” rated by Martindale Hubbell. Ms. McConnaughhay has been selected as Member of the Year by the Elder Law Section of the Florida Bar, and a Guardian Angel by the Office of the Public Guardian. In 2017 she was named one of Tallahassee’s 25 Women You Need to Know by the Tallahassee Democrat. Ms. McConnaughhay focuses her practice on estate planning matters, with special insight into issues involving aging and disability.

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