Gerald J. Pierson

Jerry Pierson is from Peoria, Illinois, where he graduated from Bradley University in 1987. He received a master’s degree from the University of Toledo in 1990. Before law school, he taught college history, edited scholarly manuscripts, and worked in social service administration.

At the University of Kentucky College of Law, Jerry wrote onto the Kentucky Law Journal and was later elected managing editor. In that post he redesigned the journal’s typography and publishing workflow. He earned his J.D. in 2006, winning that year’s Oexmann Writing Award.

Before coming to Gary C. Johnson PSC in 2011, Jerry engaged in insurance defense and medical malpractice work. The Kentucky Supreme Court and Court of Appeals have used his arguments or language in a number of decisions.

He has two decades of experience getting results in personal injury cases: car, truck, and motorcycle accidents, medical malpractice, serious and catastrophic injuries, and wrongful death.

Based in our Lexington office, Jerry supports our firm’s Lexington, Pikeville, Hazard, and Louisville trial attorneys with specialized legal research and brief writing. Working together they’ve recovered millions for our clients.

Jerry has raised three delightful children. He spends his free time reading, mostly nonfiction. In 2020 he and his children established “Pierson’s Free Library” to collect and distribute good used books in Lexington neighborhoods.