Cranfill Sumner LLP today announced that Marissa Jensen has joined the firm’s Raleigh office as Of Counsel.
Marissa comes to Cranfill Sumner with more than a decade of litigation experience in state and local government having served in positions such as a Deputy County Attorney at the Wake County Sheriff’s Office, a Wake County Assistant District Attorney, a Special Assistant United States Attorney, and a Special Deputy Attorney General.
She began her career as a Wake County Assistant District Attorney where she prosecuted hundreds of cases in both district and superior court and has tried numerous cases in front of juries. She also served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Medicaid Investigations Division at the N.C. Department of Justice, where she was appointed as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of North Carolina and assisted in the prosecution of complex Medicaid fraud cases involving multiple agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of the Inspector General, and Department of Health and Human Services.
In addition to her extensive trial experience, she is also a formidable appellate advocate. As a Special Deputy Attorney General in the Appellate and Post-Conviction Section at the N.C. Department of Justice, she prepared the State’s briefs in criminal appeals and presented numerous oral arguments in both the N.C. Supreme Court and the N.C. Court of Appeals.
She is a graduate of Campbell Law School and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
