While an undergraduate student at The University of Alabama, she was a member and captain of the nationally ranked Crimson Cabaret dance team. As a law student at The University of Alabama School of Law, she served as a Senior Editor of the Alabama Law Review, Vice President and Auction Committee Chair of the Dorbin Association, and certified legal intern in the Elder Law Clinical Program.

Jillian is licensed to practice law in the states of Alabama and Mississippi, and she is admitted to the United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama and the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi, as well as United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.