Jessica B. Heffner
Founding Partner
Jessica approaches both her practice and her life with preparation, intention, and heart — guiding clients through difficult seasons with steadiness and perspective."

Jessica has devoted her practice to exclusively family law matters for over a decade. She is a Board-Certified Specialist in Family Law and a DRC-Certified Family Financial Mediator. 

Jessica's family law practice is focused on child custody and support, equitable distribution (i.e., marital/divisible property division), post-separation support and alimony, premarital and postnuptial agreements, separation agreements, absolute divorce, marital torts and other domestic civil actions (such as domestic violence, alienation of affections, and criminal conversation lawsuits).  She represents clients in all stages of litigation, mediation, and settlement—primarily in Wake, Orange, Chatham, and Durham counties. 

Jessica currently serves on the North Carolina State Bar Council (representing the 10th Judicial District) and is the Chair of the Family Law Section of the NC Bar Association. 

She has been recognized as a Best Lawyer in America in Family Law and is consistently listed among Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite and North Carolina Super Lawyers Rising Stars. 

Jessica has presented at numerous CLE conferences and programs, including for the North Carolina Bar Association, North Carolina Advocates for Justice, and North Carolina State Bar. She was a Course Planner for the 2025 Annual Meeting and CLE for the Family Law Section of the NCBA and will be reprising her role as a Course Planner for the 2027 Annual Meeting in Charleston, SC.

Jessica earned her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and her J.D. from Campbell Law School, graduating magna cum laude. While in law school, she served as Chief Comments Editor of the Campbell Law Review and received the J. Stanley McQuade Excellence in Leadership & Academic Scholarship Award. Her mock trial team brought a national championship to Campbell by winning the South Texas Mock Trial Challenge, where she was named Best Advocate in the Championship Round. She was also awarded the Student Advocate Award by the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and inducted into the Order of Barristers.

Outside the courtroom, Jessica is married and the proud mother of two young children.  She is an avid reader and book collector.  When not practicing law or managing BHH Family Law, you'll find her spending time with family and friends or reading in her home library.  

Jessica approaches both her practice and her life with preparation, intention, and heart — guiding clients through difficult seasons with steadiness and perspective.

Awards & Recognition

  • Listed as a Best Lawyer in America: Family Law (2025-2026)
  • Listed among Business North Carolina Magazine Legal Elite: Family Law (2020-2026); Young Guns (2015, 2020)
  • Listed among North Carolina Super Lawyers Family Law – Rising Star (2022-2023, 2025-2026)

Professional & Community Activities

  • North Carolina State Bar
    • Councilor, 10th Judicial District (January 2025-present)
  • Wake County Bar Association (WCBA)/10th Judicial District Bar
    • Past Board of Directors Member (2024)
    • Past Public Service Committee Member (2015-2018)
  • North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA), Family Law Section
    • Vice Chair (2025-2026), Incoming Chair for 2026-2027
    • Past Executive Committee Member (2023-2024)
    • Past Secretary (2020-2024)
    • Past Co-Chair, Communications Committee (2017-2019)
  • North Carolina Children’s Home Society, Community Leadership Council (2023 – present)

Certifications

  • North Carolina Board Certified Family Law Specialist
  • North Carolina DRC Certified Family Financial Mediator
  • American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), Fellow

Speeches & Publications

  • Child Custody and Other Children’s Issues, NCAOJ’s Specialist Exam Review & CLE, North Carolina Advocates for Justice, 2022 and 2025.
  • You Need to Calm Down: Recalibrating Professional Expectations and Boundaries for How We Treat Our Colleagues, Our Clients, and Ourselves, Family Law Section Annual Meeting and CLE, NCBA, May 2025 (Co-Course Planner with Mariana Godwin)
  • “Division of Pensions, Retirement Benefits, and Deferred Compensation,” Family Law Section Intensive CLE, North Carolina Bar Association, November 2023/January 2024
  • “10 Things You Should Know About Family Law,” Estate Planning Section CLE, North Carolina Bar Association, November 2023
  • “Child Custody and Other Children’s Issues,” Specialist Exam Review CLE, NC Advocates for Justice, August 2022
  • “Legal/Financial Issues Common to Cases Involving Children with Neurological Disorders, Children with Personality/Behavioral Disorders, and Adults Battling Addiction,” Family Law Specialists CLE, NC State Bar, August 2019
  • “Recent Developments in Family Law,” The Annual Festival of Legal Learning presented by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012-2018
  • “Contempt in North Carolina,” Family Law Basics CLE, North Carolina Bar Association, November 2018
  • “Family Law Update,” North Carolina Advocates for Justice Annual Convention, 2014-2018
  • Avoiding Wonderland: Clarifying Marriage Requirements in North Carolina, 35 Campbell L. Rev. 189, 227 (2013)

Bloom Heffner Hawkins PLLC

919-926-4820

4934 Windy Hill Drive
Raleigh, NC 27609

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