The Hon. Jessica Ann Salvini is a judge for the 13th Judicial Circuit Family Court of South Carolina. She was elected to the bench by the South Carolina General Assembly in 2019.
The 13th Judicial Circuit includes Pickens and Greenville Counties.
Prior to her election, Salvini was a senior partner at her own law firm since relocating to South Carolina in 2002. Her areas of practice included litigating civil, family, and criminal matters. She also served as an associate municipal judge for the City of Mauldin. Salvini joined the court in 2007 and became the chief trial judge for the City of Mauldin in 2009. She began her legal career at her own law firm in San Francisco, California in 2000.
Salvini received a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Riverside in 1997. She then completed a J.D. at Golden Gate University School of Law in 2000. Salvini was admitted to practice in California (2000) and South Carolina (2001).
The oldest of four sisters, Salvini was born in Upland, California, and raised in the Inland Empire in San Bernardino Valley. Her father, John, worked for fifty-seven years with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, and her mother, Hazel, whose family has resided in California for over 100 years, was a nurse and homemaker. Salvini attended Fontana High School.
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