Shonah P. Jefferson is a member of the Affordable Housing Team within the Firm’s Real Estate Group.   Before joining HunterMaclean, Ms. Jefferson worked as a lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, where she represented commercial banks and insurance companies as providers of municipal reinvestment products.  Ms. Jefferson also worked at AT&T for several years, where she was responsible for managing various financial processes.

Ms. Jefferson represents for-profit and non-profit developers in the area of multi-family housing development.  She helps them finance and develop affordable housing projects funded from a variety of sources, including low income housing tax credits, HOME funds, conventional loans and tax-exempt municipal bonds.  Ms. Jefferson also represents hospitals and universities as borrowers of tax-exempt bond proceeds and as purchasers of municipal reinvestment products.

Ms. Jefferson has a B.B.A. in Finance and a B.A. in Plan II Honors Liberal Arts from The University of Texas at Austin, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She also has a J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law.

Originally from Houston, Texas, Ms. Jefferson currently resides in Savannah. She is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Savannah Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

• Publications

  • HITECH Act Widens Scope of HIPAA Liability

• Professional Affiliations and Awards

  • American Bar Association: Member of Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development
  • American Health Lawyers Association: Member
  • Georgia Affordable Housing Coalition
  • National Association of Bond Lawyers: Associate Member
  • Savannah Bar Association
  • State Bar of Georgia