In the fifth chapter of her legal career, Jill served as GACDL’s 4th Executive Director. Jill has been actively involved with GACDL since her law school days and served as the 2005 President. She served on the GACDL board of directors in various capacities and received the GACDL President's Award from five presidents. Jill was the Director of the Bill Daniel Trial Advocacy Program from 2008 to 2021 and served as an instructor with this program since its inception in 1999.

Previously, Jill served as Deputy Legislative Counsel for the Georgia General Assembly for 18 years, writing many of the laws that trial attorneys regularly use, e.g., Criminal Justice Reform, Juvenile Code rewrite, Evidence Code rewrite, and GPDC revisions. During her career, she wrote more than 10,000 bills and amendments.

Before joining the Office of Legislative Counsel, Jill practiced criminal defense for 14 years, serving as the Chief Public Defender for Douglas County for seven years. Her office received the 1996 Commitment to Excellence award from the Georgia Indigent Defense Council (now known as GPDC).

Before becoming the Douglas County Public Defender, Jill did civil, business, and criminal litigation in a small firm in the suburbs of Atlanta for four years and began her career in downtown Atlanta as a general practitioner working with another GACDL member in Kane & Anderson.

A Michigander by birth, Jill received her B.A. from the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University but has lived in Georgia since attending law school at Mercer University. Jill completed the National Criminal Defense College in 1994.

Ophelia originally migrated  from Accra, Ghana with her mother to the United States in 1998 and settled in Alexandria VA where she enrolled and completed her Middle and High School education in 2006. She went on graduate from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BSc Degree in Business Administration (Finance Major) in May 2010. She furthered her education and graduated in December 2015 with a Master of Science degree in Human Resource Management from Strayer University.

Ophelia joined AMJ Financial LLC in August 2010 as a Client Service Associate and worked for 2 years. In January 2013, she relocated to Accra, Ghana and joined the newly formed Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD) as a Human Resource and Administrative Executive in March 2013. Ophelia was very instrumental in the setting up of the company, and the hiring of staff. In 2015, she spearheaded the maiden International Conference of Ghana International Petroleum which was organized by CBOD.  She joined the Ghana Netherlands Business and Culture Council (GNBCC) in April 2017 as the Office Manager. Her responsibilities included the overall office and membership administration, and project/account management support of the GNBCC office.

In March 2021, Ophelia moved back to the United States and joined GACDL as the Operations Manager in June 2021.