[1] In her early legal career, Jefferson was in private practice at the law firms Mayer Brown and Hunton & Williams, and also worked as an attorney for Charlottesville, Virginia.

[1] During the first half of 2019, Jefferson held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in Australia.

[3] She was appointed to the Michigan State University Board of Trustees by Governor Gretchen Whitmer in December 2019, replacing Nancy Schlichting who resigned the same year.

[4] Jefferson is the author of four books, including Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court published by New York University Press in 2020,[1] and numerous academic articles.

The couple share the same birthdays as Richard and Mildred Loving, whose United States Supreme Court case established the right of interracial marriage.