SCHERERVILLE, IN, February 17, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Alexis Jarrett has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
For 46 years, Ms. Jarrett has expertly juggled her love of sports and the legal field and made careers she's been proud of out of both. She began on a strictly academic path, teaching in Esko, Minnesota public schools for four years after graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree. She incorporated sports into her professional life in 1974 as the University of Missouri's assistant director of athletics and head basketball, softball, and track coach, all while pursuing her postgraduate degree at the institution. Ms. Jarrett shifted her focus again in 1984 when she opened her private practice, an operation she still presently runs. Over the next three decades, beginning in the '70s, Ms. Jarrett split her time between pursuing law and pursuing sports. In addition to running multiple athletic teams and departments while at MU, she was the coordinator of the school's women's sports information department. In the '90s, she was the women's basketball and softball color analyst of the Regional Radio Sports Network, the vice president of legal affairs for the National Association of State Farm Agents, Inc., the judicial extern at the Circuit Court of Cook County, and a member of the Moot Court Council.
Not one to leave her passion behind at the end of a work day, Ms. Jarrett is an active member of and leader in her local sports and law alliances: the Indiana High School Athletic Association Individual with Vision award recipient has been a sponsor of the Lake County High School Girls Basketball banquet; president and on the board of directors for the Samaritan Counseling Center; on the board of directors and the secretary-treasurer of the VNA Foundation; a guest at the American Heart Association Celebrity Dinner; the vice president of the Southwest Lake division of the American Heart Association; a member and on the board of advisors at the Basketball Hall of Fame; on the board of directors at the Boys and Girls Club; and a member of the advisory board for the industrial research liaison program at Indiana University. She is also on various committees in the American Bar Association, the Sports Lawyers Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Indiana State Medical Association Alliance, the American Business Women's Association, and the Lake County Medical Society Alliance.
Mr. Jarrett has been included in the 27th through 33rd editions of Who's Who In Finance and Industry; the 34th through 36th editions of Who's Who In Finance and Business; the 53rd, 55th through 58th, and 61st through 63rd editions of Who's Who in America; the 13th through 15th editions of Who's Who in American Law; the 23rd through 27th editions of Who's Who in the Midwest; the 11th, 12th, 17th, and 22nd editions of Who's Who in the World; the 17th through 21st and 24th through 28th editions of Who's Who of American Women; and the fourth edition of Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America.
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