Justyn Ann Baxley

Justyn Ann Baxley is a Partner with JAG Defense.  Her practice primarily focuses on security clearance law and administrative law.  As a security clearance lawyer, Ms. Baxley has represented hundreds of individuals in security clearance adjudications across virtually every federal agency, to include the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Energy, the National Security Agency, NASA, and others.  Her successes in retaining or obtaining security clearances for her clients has included cases involving every Adjudicative Guideline (A-M).  Ms. Baxley provides comprehensive, compelling, and compassionate representation for her clients facing security clearance issues.

Prior to joining JAG Defense, Ms. Baxley worked as a program manager of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) funded projects for an international law firm.  From 2003 to 2005, she worked as a government relations attorney with the Boston Bar Association, advocating bar positions before legislative, executive and judicial branches of the Massachusetts government.

Ms. Baxley is originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia. In 1998, she graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. In 2002, Ms. Baxley received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Richmond School of Law, where she served as a senior staff member of The Richmond Journal of Law and Technology and taught as an assistant in the Lawyering Skills I and II classes. In her spare time, Ms. Baxley enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters, playing tennis, and spending as much time at the beach as she can.

Education:

• B.A., University of Virginia, 1998
• J.D., University of Richmond School of Law, 2002

Bar Admissions:

Client defense contractor was issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) under Adjudicative Guideline H – Drug Involvement and E – Personal Conduct for use of illegal drugs and misuse of prescription drugs, testing positive for illegal drug use, and drug use while possessing a security clearance, as well as failing to disclose drug use in a security clearance background investigation and adjudication. After presenting the case before an Administrative Judge from the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals, the clearance was granted with the Judge finding FOR THE APPLICANT.