Candace C. Jackson is an associate of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP who practices in Columbia in business litigation, ranging in areas from employment and labor law, commercial and consumer finance law, and toxic torts.  Candace also practices in corporate law. Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Jackson was a law clerk for Chief Judge Kaye G. Hearn and Judge Jasper M. Cureton, both of the South Carolina Court of Appeals.

Ms. Jackson is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the United States District Court of South Carolina, and the South Carolina Supreme Court.

Ms. Jackson has served internships in the Office of U.S. Senator Lindsey O. Graham, Senate Judiciary Committee; with Chief Judge Curtis L. Collier of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga; and worked as a legal assistant in the U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia. She also has intern experience in Columbia law firms.

Ms. Jackson maintains active membership in the American Bar Association and the South Carolina Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division. Currently, she serves on the Boards of Directors for the Oliver Gospel Mission and the James R. Clark Memorial Sickle Cell Foundation and the Renaissance Foundation.  In January 2011, she was named to The State Newspaper's "20 under 40" list of young achievers. In May 2010, she was appointed by Columbia Mayor-Elect Steve Benjamin to the Regionalism and Intergovernmental Relations Committee of the Mayor-Elect's Transition Team. In 2008, she co-founded and became chair of the Candace Girls' Educational Foundation in Monrovia, Liberia, which is aimed at, among other things, providing quality education to parentless and underprivileged girls in Liberia, West Africa. In 2007, she was selected to the Executive Leadership Team of the Midlands Go Red for Women Initiative of the American Heart Association. Ms. Jackson is also an active member of the Columbia Alumnae Association of Spelman College and the Duke Law Alumni Association.

She earned her Juris Doctor in 2006 from the Duke University School of Law, where she received the School of Law Academic Scholarship, was semi-finalist and received the Best Attorney award during the 2003 Mock Trial Competition, and received the Thurgood Marshall Award. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Spelman College, where in 2003, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in English and Philosophy.