Prior to joining Gallagher, Villeneuve and DeGeer, PLLC in 2019 Jennifer practiced with Goeschl Law Corporation, a California-based Immigration firm serving entrepreneurs and corporations, where she continues to work on nonimmigrant business matters during peak periods. Jennifer also operated her own Immigration practice, the Law Office of Jennifer Atkinson, which concentrated on family-based immigration, citizenship, and asylum matters.

Jennifer lives with her husband and their teenage children in Damariscotta. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Maine State Bar Association, and the Lincoln County Bar Association. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the First Universalist Church of Rockland and is a member of the Pro Bono Panel of the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project in Portland. In her spare time Jennifer enjoys creative pursuits as well as being outside raising chickens, landscaping, gardening, or exploring local trails.