Jean Rowe Luciani

Jean Rowe Luciani joined the University of Georgia School of Law in 2023. As an associate director of career development, she is responsible for promoting, advising and preparing students to apply for post-graduate judicial clerkships; outreach to state and federal judges participating in part-time externship programs; engaging in employer outreach and the promotion of the school and its graduates in markets in the Southeast and beyond; and providing general career counseling and guidance to students. While she has primary responsibility for clerkships, she works closely with and advises all students in taking ownership of their career paths and improving their job searches and networking skills, without regard to their practice area interests or employer types.

Luciani previously served as the office manager of the UGA Terry College of Business Career Management Center, where she coordinated the operations of the Full-time MBA and MSBA programs, organized recruiting functions and strategized on communications to employers and alumni. She also worked as a grants officer for the UGA Sponsored Projects Administration. Her role involved negotiating, executing and managing federal research contracts and reviewing agreements, budgets and ancillary documents.

She came to UGA from Georgia Gwinnett College, where she served as a part-time faculty member for approximately three years. She taught paralegal courses focusing on substantive law, occupational competencies and soft skills to ensure job preparedness.

Before working in higher education, Luciani was a commercial lawyer concentrating in the entire lifecycle of a broad range of legal agreements across multiple industries. She worked at Troutman Sanders; McKesson Corporation, a Fortune 50 corporation; and Andersen, Tate & Carr; and as a contract attorney for the Smiths Group, a FTSE 100 company.

Luciani earned her undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary and her law degree from UGA, where she graduated magna cum laude, was inducted into the Order of the Coif and served on the Georgia Law Review.