“I am so grateful for this
recognition of El Sol, an amazing non profit organization that
helps those who are among the least powerful, and perhaps most
despised in our society. This organization has become my passion
and I am blessed to work with them. This acknowledgment is
especially moving when I see the names of the many valiant and
wonderful women who have received this award over the past 25
years.”
Jill Hanson is an attorney who practices in the area of labor
and employment law, primarily representing unions throughout
Florida. For the past seventeen years, she has been a partner in
the law practice of Hanson, Perry & Jensen, P.A., one of the
first all female law firms in Florida.
Jill is a founding member of the Jupiter neighborhood resource
center, El Sol. Ms. Hanson now serves as secretary to the board
as well as general counsel to the organization. On Saturdays,
she provides a mini legal clinic to members. El Sol is named
after Ms. Hanson’s late husband, Sol Silverman, who passed away
in 2005.They were married for sixteen years, and he is her
sunshine and her inspiration.
Jill says that her parents, active volunteers themselves, raised
her to be a volunteer. As a college student, she participated in
a pilot Headstart project in Harlem and worked on a volunteer
work project in Appalachia.
In Palm Beach County, Jill is long time member and past chair of
the Citizens Advisory Committee on Health and Human Services to
the Board of County Commissioners. She has also served as pro
bono counsel to the Florida Labor Management Conference, a
statewide organization of labor and management personnel. Jill
has also served as pro bono counsel for the Martin Luther King,
Jr. Coordinating Committee for over ten years.
In 1981, Jill graduated with honors from Rutgers Law School in
Newark, NJ, after having been a union activist for several
years. She was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme
Court with her two partners, and believes that Justice Ginsburg
smiled especially at them. She is also admitted to practice in
many different federal courts and New York and Florida. |
