 Ā Ā About Nancy Cleaveland
Nancy Cleaveland graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in criminology and moved to Jacksonville for law school in 2006. She has practiced primarily family law for the last 15 years in Duval, Nassau, and Clay Counties, and also has experience in bankruptcy, contract disputes, estate planning, and probate. She and her husband, Mike, have their own law firm in Jacksonville and two daughters.
As a member of the Florida Bar, Nancy is licensed to practice in the State of Florida, but is also licensed to practice in the United States District Court of the Middle District of Florida. Outside of the practice of law, she is involved in the legal community as a member of the Jacksonville Bar, Jacksonville Beaches Bar, Clay County Bar, Florida Family Law American Inn of Court, Robert M. Foster Inn of Court (Nassau County), and Jacksonville Women Lawyers Association, and serves on the Family Law Rules Committee and Government Advocacy Committee of the Florida Bar.
She is a member of the Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation, and James Madison Institute. As part of her service to the community, Nancy is a member of the Rotary Club of Jacksonville and serves on the board of Breakthrough T1D (formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation).
Nancy Cleaveland is endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police, Nassau County Professional Firefighters, and Clay County Professional Firefighters.
 Ā About Ashley Wells Cox
Mrs. Ashley Cox graduated magna cum laude from Duke University in 1997. She graduated with honors from Northwestern University School of Law in 2002 in the top 10% of her class.Ā Between college and law school, she taught for two years on the Southside of Chicago in an Inner-City Teaching Corps.
After graduating law school, Ashley practiced two years as a Skadden Fellow attorney at Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc. implementing a consumer advocacy project. Ā She then worked at the State Attorneyās Office in Jacksonville, prosecuting both misdemeanor and felony cases and working on a grand jury investigation.
Ashley is now a director at Bedell, Dittmar, DeVault, Pillans & Coxe, where she has practiced since 2006.Ā Ā She has experience with criminal defense, administrative law, representing clients before The Florida Bar and the Florida Board of Bar Examiners.Ā Her practice for the last eight years has focused primarily on family law.
Ashley is a Guardian ad Litem volunteer, and has volunteered weekly at the Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry in the food pantry.Ā She is on the parent council at Providence School of Jacksonville and is the past chair of the School Advisory Council at Atlantic Beach Elementary. |
