Jerry Blackwell【 Attorney Biography Age 】Wife Married, Net Worth, Family

Personal Details Summary
Name	Jerry Blackwell
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB	As of 2025, he is around 63 years old. This was confirmed in an article done on him in BizJournals.
Wedding & Marriage / Wife / Engaged / Spouse / Partner	Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.
Children / No. of Kids	1
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race	Black
Nationality	American
What happened to Jerry Blackwell?	During the summer of 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Blackwell to serve as a district judge for Minnesota’s United States District Court.

Wikipedia Bio / Profile Background

Introduction :

Jerry Blackwell is an American corporate lawyer, meditation coach, youth mentor, and legal entrepreneur from Minnesota.
Soft-spoken but firm in his passion for justice, Jerry has never been afraid to stand up for his beliefs.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

Jerry Blackwell was born and raised in Kannapolis, North Carolina. He is one of seven children in his family.
Throughout his life and career, he has lived all around Minnesota from Saint Paul to Eden Prairie and Minneapolis, where he currently resides with his wife. He is father to an adult son.
Prior to living in Minnesota, Blackwell was based in Concord, North Carolina.
Jerry is a private and lowkey man and has always chosen not to share too much about his personal life, especially after the high-profile Derek Chauvin trial, which saw him receive numerous death threats.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

Jerry was an avid reader as a child and was encouraged to become a lawyer by his mother.
He attended college on a merit-based scholarship and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1984 before earning his Juris Doctor in Law from the same school in 1987.
Blackwell is admitted to be a lawyer in the U.S. Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court, and the District of Minnesota.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

Jerry’s career began in 1986 after he received a job offer from the Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi Law Firm in Minnesota. After two decades at the firm, Blackwell decided it was time for him to branch out and build his own business.
In 2006, Jerry joined forces with late attorney Martin ‘Skip’ Burkey to found Blackwell Burke P.A. Currently, he serves as the firm’s Head Attorney, Chairman, and CEO.
Throughout the years, Blackwell Burke P.A. has worked on hundreds of cases, representing several companies across 47 states in the U.S. and multiple countries worldwide.
The company has a wide range of high-profile clients, including the likes of General Mills, 3M, Shell Oil, IBM, and Cargill.
Jerry is also a founder of an organization called the Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers (MABL).
In June 2020, Jerry represented the late Max Mason. Max, a former African-American circus worker, was granted a Posthumous Pardon after he was given a wrongful conviction in 1920 for rape. Mr. Mason was sentenced to 30 years in jail and granted conditional parole in 1925, but his colleagues, who were also falsely accused, were publicly lynched.
In 2021, Jerry returned to the spotlight after being asked to represent the prosecution team in the trial of Officer Derek Chauvin. Derek was found guilty of murder after kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, a black man. This incident in May 2020 sparked worldwide outrage and protests for racial justice.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

When he is not working, Jerry loves to spend time at his farmhouse, which is located in Jordan, Minnesota. There, he farms honeybees and looks after a goat he called Beyoncé and several barn cats.
He also mentors aspiring young black lawyers.

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