Jemma (she/her) joined Nielsen Koch & Grannis in 2026. Prior to joining the firm, she was a felony trial attorney at Metropolitan Public Defender in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. She graduated magna cum laude from the Lewis & Clark Northwestern School of Law where she was an Associate Editor of the Lewis & Clark Law Review. As a law student she worked in the Lewis & Clark Criminal Justice Reform Clinic on clemency petitions, parole cases, and re-sentencing advocacy, at Disability Rights Oregon assisting the ongoing litigation related to Oregon Advocacy Center v. Mink, 322 F.3d 1101 (9th Cir. 2003), and in criminal appeals with Oregon Public Defense Commission’s Appellate Division.

Jemma received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon and holds a graduate degree in political science from McGill University.