• Location: Macon, GA
• Undergraduate: Marshall University – 2000
• Law School: Mercer University School of Law – 2003
• Admitted To Practice: State of Georgia

Jason Downey has extensive trial experience throughout Georgia in personal injury matters throughout his legal career of over two decades. He previously worked in the Macon office of Morgan and Morgan and was in-house counsel for Allstate Insurance Company. Jason was also a sole practitioner and small business owner for several years where he represented injured individuals and served as a Georgia Certified Civil and Domestic Mediator with South Georgia ADR. His experience defending insurance companies, as well as families, provides him with unique insight to effectively represent those who have been hurt by the wrongdoing of others.

Jason currently serves on the Georgia State Board of Education, a position he was appointed to in 2019 by Georgia Governor Brian P. Kemp. He previously served as Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the State Board along with numerous committee chairmanships, while representing the residents of the 8th Congressional District of Georgia on the Board. He was also appointed by Governor Kemp to the Georgia Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Committee. Prior to his service on the State Board, Jason was elected to the Macon-Bibb County Board of Education where he served for four years in a variety of capacities as treasurer, vice-chairman, and legislative liaison. Jason serves on the Board of Vistors for the Tift College of Education at Mercer University and serves on the Suicide Prevention and Awareness Committee of the Georgia Bar Association.

He graduated from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia with a B.A. in Communication Studies and from Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law in Macon, Georgia with his Juris Doctorate.

Jason was born and raised in and near Charleston, West Virginia, and has called Middle Georgia his home since 2000. He and his wife Connie, a native South Georgian, and their daughter Cate, live in Middle Georgia. Cate is a student at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, while Jason and Connie- a retired educator from the Jones County Schools- enjoy traveling, baseball, women’s softball, and spending time on Lake Sinclair.