Jackson Tate is an associate attorney at Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP, practicing in the firm’s employment and political law groups.

Before entering private practice, Jackson clerked for Judge Christian Sande, Civil Presiding Judge of Minnesota’s Fourth Judicial District.

He earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2024. While in law school, Jackson won Tulane University’s 2024 Mardi Gras Sports Law Moot Court Invitational, besting students from more than 35 law schools across the nation. During law school, Jackson worked for the University of Minnesota’s Student Legal Service, aiding students with a variety of legal matters, and as a research assistant for the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law. He was also a teaching assistant for the law school’s experiential learning program, Law in Practice, and a volunteer mediator for the Conflict Resolution Center.

Jackson graduated in 2020 from SUNY Geneseo, a small public liberal arts college in New York, with a double-major in sociology and psychology.