Women in the Law Resources - Advocates

The WIL Committee encourages JRCLS members to submit biographies of women in the law and of advocates for women in the law that can be posted on our website as a way of connecting JRCLS women members and of educating each other about the diverse and varied backgrounds of our members.  The WIL Committee hope that the biographies provided here of the members of the WIL Committee will encourage communications from JRCLS women members that can be shared on the WIL website and that will help the WIL Committee better serve the JRCLS women members.

Wendy C. Archibald
William F. Atkin
Mary Hoagland
Annette W. Jarvis
Melinda A. Morgan
Hannah C. Smith
Tiffany Smith

Annette W. Jarvis

Annette W. Jarvis is a shareholder in the Salt Lake City firm, Ray Quinney & Nebeker (RQ&N), which she joined in 2002 to chair RQ&N's Bankruptcy Section and where she currently serves as a member of the Executive Committee. Prior to joining the firm, she was a partner with the international law firm of LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae and worked for 18 years in their Washington D.C., Denver, and Salt Lake City offices.

For the past 28 years, she has represented domestic and international clients in high profile bankruptcy and insolvency cases throughout the country. She will receive the prestigious “Transaction of the Year - - Large Company” award from the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) in October, 2007, has been elected as a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, maintains an AV rating with Martindale-Hubbell, and has been selected by her peers for inclusion in the list of The Best Lawyers in America in Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law. She has written articles and spoken at numerous conferences on bankruptcy law related topics. She graduated magna cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in 1979, where she was a member of the Law Review and a J. Reuben Clark Scholar. She is a past chair of the Salt Lake Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society.

Annette is committed to making the law profession a more family friendly field, and welcomes the opportunity to talk to and hear from other women on the subject. She has five children (ages 11-29) with her husband of 31 years, Joe Jarvis, and is a strong advocate for flexible and reduced time working arrangements. Entering practice with a young son and a husband in medical school, she negotiated such arrangements for herself and helped formalize reduced time policies at all three firms with which she has been associated. She worked for 13 years on a reduced basis, including working in a home office for seven years while her older children were young. She has helped women nation-wide in their efforts to establish workable reduced time arrangements and has provided advice about balancing family and work. The Utah State Bar Association honored her with the Dorathy Merrill Brothers Award for the Advancement of Women in the Legal Profession in 2005 and she received the 2005 Distinguished Alumna Award from the BYU Alumni Women’s Law Forum. In November 2007, she will receive the 2007 Pathfinders Award from the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce for her work in advocating for reduced time policies and in furthering the advancement of women in the legal profession. She authored “Thoughts on the Family: A Proclamation to the World,” published in the Fall 2006 issue of the Clark Memorandum.

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