Joan-Marie Sullivan

Law Offices of Joan-Marie Sullivan

Joan-Marie Sullivan has thirty-eight years of experience as an attorney. For the majority of those years, her practice has focused on family law and she has assisted countless clients with divorce and child custody issues. Ms. Sullivan is also an accomplished appellate attorney. She has filed numerous briefs in all three of Alabama’s appellate courts, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Civil Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. She has orally argued before both the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals and the Alabama Supreme Court. Her efforts have resulted in many changes to Alabama’s legal landscape over the past three decades. Ms. Sullivan is a 1985 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Alabama and earned her law degree from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1988. Ms. Sullivan previously practiced law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and worked at Lanier, Ford, Shaver and Payne and Wolfe, Jones & Boswell in
Huntsville, Alabama. She has been in private practice since 1995 and is currently a partner at Sullivan Banks Law LLC.

In addition to maintaining an active trial practice, Ms. Sullivan served as the Editor of the Alabama Law Weekly for the past thirty years. Ms. Sullivan is certified as both an appellate and family law mediator. Ms. Sullivan served as the Chair of the Alabama State Bar Family Law Section from 2019-2021 and in 2018, she was appointed by the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court to serve on the Appellate Rules Committee, where she still serves. She was also appointed to the Supreme Court’s Confidentiality and Privacy in Court Records Task Force. In addition, she served on the Advisory Committee on Child-Support Guidelines and Enforcement for the Supreme Court from 2021-2023.