Vanessa A. Richardson

Vanessa A. Richardson was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, and grew up in New York City. She earned an AS degree in Marketing and a BS in Criminal Justice, summa cum laude, from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She graduated cum laude with a law degree from Capital University Law School, Columbus, Ohio. She worked as a Mitigating Specialist on death penalty cases for Horry County Public Defender’s Office and on jail misconduct cases for a Georgetown law firm. She practiced civil litigation, handling personal injury cases, which allowed her to practice in various states. She started...