Maggie Jo Hilliard | Artistic Attorney

There is nothing that Maggie Jo can’t do: she is an avid shopper with an insatiable craving for fashion, an attorney w­ith a passion for First Amendment law, and a true socialite to boot. The energetic 28-year-old attorney moved from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Jacksonville­ in 2003. Here, she established her own firm, the Law Office of Maggie Jo Hilliard, P.A. (maggiejolaw.com), and is the president of High Heels & Hearts (highheelsandhearts.org), a charitable foundation for young, social women with big hearts and true fashion sense that has organized events and school-supply drives for local charities. “It really comes down to having the guts to do it,” she says. “I woke up one morning and thought, ‘you only live once.’” The enthusiastic artist has been freelancing graphic design for eight years (check out her work at maggiejo.com) and collaborated with her roommate to invent Project Bold, which develops creative marketing strategies for small businesses.