Jennifer Goldson

Clinical Professor of Legal Research and Writing

Department

• Law School

Contact Information

• jgoldson@law.capital.edu
• Capital University Law School

Biography

Jennifer Goldson is currently Professor of Legal Writing at Capital University Law School, where she teaches Legal Analysis, Research and Writing and Legal Drafting – Family Law. Prior to joining the full time faculty, she was the Senior Staff Attorney and Clinic Supervisor at the Family and Youth Law Center (FYLaw) at the law school. In her role at FYLaw, Professor Goldson taught the Family and Youth Advocacy Clinic class, supervised the operations of the clinic, and was the coordinator for the National Moot Court Competition in Child Welfare and Adoption Law. Prior to coming to Capital, Professor Goldson was an attorney in Columbus for 25 years practicing primarily family law. She spent almost 20 years in private practice with Bradley Frick and Associates. She worked for Franklin County Domestic Relations and Juvenile Judge Dana Suzanne Preisse at the start of her career, serves on the Family Law Committee of the Columbus Bar Association as the co-chair of the judicial subcommittee, and helped to establish a Pro Bono Legal Clinic with Jewish Family Services. In her spare time, Jennifer loves to watch sports (especially women’s soccer and college football), play pickleball, cook, solve puzzles and word games (crosswords and logic problems are her favorites), and play cards and mah jongg. She and her husband, Jamie, live in Bexley and have three children: Micah, age 24, Sari, age 21, and Eliana, age 17.