Jeffrey Tompkins

Jeffrey Tompkins is a senior partner with Thomas Kennedy Sampson & Tompkins LLP, Georgia’s oldest Black-owned law firm. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only professional society that is recognized as the preeminent organization of trial lawyers in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico and whose membership may never exceed one percent of all lawyers in any U.S. state or Canadian province. Jeff is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). Jeff has received the coveted “AV Preeminent” rating (the highest rating attainable for legal ability and ethics) from Martindale-Hubbell, the world’s foremost lawyer rating service. Jeff has been recognized as a Georgia “Super Lawyer” every year since 2008, and Jeff serves as a Master in the Logan E. Bleckley American Inn of Court. In 2025, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Atlanta’s Gate City Bar Association.

Jeff’s clients have included some of the world’s best-known companies, and he served as licensing counsel to the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games during the leadup to the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Jeff currently serves on the Atlanta Judicial Commission and on the board of directors of the Sadie G. Mays Health and Rehabilitation Center. Jeff is General Counsel for his church—the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta—where he provides all legal services pro bono.

Jeff previously served on the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ Technology Committee, the Atlanta Charter Review Commission, the Mayor’s Commission on the Future of Atlanta, the Atlanta Blue Ribbon Commission on Capital Projects, and on the Editorial Board of the Georgia Bar Journal. He has also served on the boards of both The Study Hall and the Agape Center, organizations focused on providing afterschool and enrichment programs for underserved youth in Atlanta. Jeff has also served as a reading tutor at Atlanta’s Perkinson Elementary School and is a former Chairman of the South Atlanta District of the Boy Scouts of America.

Jeff is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College. He received a Doctor of Law degree from Emory University, where he served as Director-in-Chief of the Emory Moot Court Society, was elected by the faculty to The Order of Barristers, and received the prestigious James C. Pratt Memorial Award at graduation.