Meet Jeanmarie

Jeanmarie Tankersley Ethridge is Special Counsel in Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd's Greenville office and is a member of the firm's Medical Malpractice Practice Group. She represents healthcare providers, businesses, insurers and other clients in complex civil litigation in state and federal courts.

Jeanmarie's experience includes medical malpractice defense, professional liability, premises liability, personal injury, government liability, insurance coverage and construction litigation. She has managed all phases of litigation, including motion practice, discovery, depositions, mediations, trials and appeals. She has tried numerous cases in South Carolina courts and has extensive experience briefing and arguing dispositive matters, preparing witnesses and serving as lead trial counsel.

Following law school, Jeanmarie was a judicial clerk to Chief Judge Roger W. Dunaway, Jr. and Judge Harold A. Hinesley of the Superior Court of Georgia.

• University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2012
• College of Charleston, B.A., summa cum laude, 2009

• Georgia, 2013
• South Carolina, 2013
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia, 2020
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
• U.S. District Court, South Carolina, 2014
• Supreme Court of the United States, 2019

• South Carolina Super Lawyers® "Rising Stars" Civil Litigation (2018-2026)
• Greenville Business Magazine “Legal Elite of the Upstate” Construction, Insurance and Product Liability (2018-2024)
• Greenville Business Magazine "Best & Brightest 35 and Under" (2020)
• South Carolina Lawyers Weekly “Legal Phenom” (2023)
• South Carolina Bar Young Lawyers Division “Star of the Quarter” (2016)

• South Carolina Bar, Board of Governors (2020, 2022), House of Delegates (2020-2026), Diversity Plan Implementation Committee (2020, 2022), Wellness Committee Member (2020-2024)
• ​South Carolina Bar Young Lawyers Division, Past President (2022-2023), President (2021-2022), President-Elect (2020-2021), Secretary/Treasurer (2019-2020), Bridge Committee Chair (2017-2020), Special Olympics Committee Chair (2015-2017), Foundation Board Member (2016)
• Greenville County Bar Association, Nominating Chair (2026), President (2025), President-Elect (2024), Secretary (2023), Treasurer (2022), Public Relations/Bar Newsletter Committee (2019-2021)
• American Bar Association, State Membership Chair (2020-2025), South Carolina Young Lawyer Delegate (2019-2022)
• Defense Research Institute Young Lawyers Steering Committee, Supreme Court Committee Chair (2019-2022), Supreme Court Committee Co-Chair (2018-2019)
• South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association, Member (2013-Present), Emerging Leader (2018)
• South Carolina Women Lawyers Association, Member (2013-Present)
• Haynsworth-Perry American Inn of Court (2019-Present)
• PMAC Greenville, Board Member (2016-2019, 2026-Present)
• Pendleton Place, Board Member (2024-Present)
• Junior League of Greenville, Empowered Women of Greenville Chair (2024), Empowered Women of Greenville Vice Chair (2023), Cinderella Project Coordinator (2022), TLC Co-Coordinator (2021), Placement Brochure Coordinator and Vice-Coordinator (2019-2020), Community Impact Liaison (2018), Active Advisor (2017)
• College of Charleston, Alumni Board Member (2018-2020)
• College of Charleston Alumni Association, Upstate South Carolina Chapter, President (2017-2018)
• Riley Institute Diversity Leaders Initiative, Upstate Class XXXI (2022)
• Leadership Greenville Class 46 (2019-2020)

• “Board and Nonprofit Service While Practicing Law,” Panel Participant, South Carolina Bar Leadership Academy (2023)
• ​“Leadership in the Bar,” Panel Participant, South Carolina Bar Leadership Academy (2021)
• “Practicing in the Era of Social Distancing,” South Carolina Bar Webinar (2020)
• “What Do You Do When? Various Day-to-Day Ethical Challenges with Opposing Counsel, the Client, or the Court,” Panel Participant, Haynsworth-Perry Inn of Court (2020)