Jo Ann Lehberger retired as a family court judge in Lexington, Kentucky and returned to her hometown of Knoxville in 2013. During her 10 years on the bench, she served as chair of the Fayette Family Court presiding over cases involving divorce, child custody, visitation, alimony and support, termination of parental rights, domestic violence, paternity, juvenile status offenses, child abuse and neglect and adoption.

Before taking the bench, she practiced civil and family law litigation for 18 years focusing on divorce, child custody, child visitation and child support litigation cases. She served as chair of the family law section of the Kentucky Bar Association and the Fayette County Bar Association and as a member of the Kentucky Legislature’s Special Task Force on Parenting and Child Custody.

Lehberger is licensed to practice law in Tennessee and Kentucky and is a Rule 31 certified Family Mediator. She has been an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law since 2013, where she supervises student attorneys in the Domestic Violence Clinic.