Samantha Dawn Pennington

Samantha Pennington Evans earned her Bachelor Degree at the University of Missouri – Columbia.  She earned her Juris Doctorate (JD) and an advanced legal degree (LL.M) in Tax Law from the Chicago John Marshall School of Law.  Samantha’s legal experience is extensive and varied.  She has worked on a vast array of complex legal matters such as; providing counsel to a fortune 500 corporation and a municipal library board.  Samantha has successfully tried fraud litigation and innumerable family law matters.  She has experience with white collar crime litigation, real estate litigation and has successfully registered numerous trademarks. Samantha regularly assists clients with navigating the internal revenue code and the IRS.  Her advanced degree in tax law makes her a particularly valuable asset for estate planning and administration matters. Samantha is particularly passionate about her small business clients.  She loves to help start-ups get their feet off the ground and walks with them as they turn their business in to a success story.

Samantha is a Doniphan, Missouri native.  After a sojourn in Columbia Missouri for undergrad and ten years in Chicago for law school and work, Samantha returned home to Southeast Missouri in 2011. She now lives with her husband and three children on their family farm outside of Poplar Bluff where they grow natural, sustainable produce for the local community.  Samantha’s husband is the pastor at the 1st Presbyterian Church in Malden, where she is a member.