Jennifer L. Sheridan
Clayton Visiting Professor of Law
(865) 974-8339
Courses Taught
Secured Transactions High Tech Deals Seminar
About
Jenny Lynn Sheridan is a Visiting Professor of Law in the Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law. Prior to coming to The University of Tennessee, she was a teaching fellow at Columbia Law School. Before that, Jenny practiced law in Silicon Valley including serving as General Counsel of two software companies. In addition she taught for over a decade in the nationally recognized IP/high tech program at Santa Clara Law School. She began her career as a corporate law associate at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett in New York City, and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in Palo Alto, California. She has served on the Executive Committee of the IP section of the California Bar. Jenny received her A.B. with honors at Occidental College and her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a Charles Evans Hughes fellow. She completed graduate studies in law and development economics at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy. In 2010, Jenny volunteered overseas as a consultant advising NGO's on women's advocacy efforts in Sri Lanka. In the Spring Semester of 2012, she teaches Secured Transactions and her High Tech Deals Seminar.