A graduate of Furman University and Duke University School of Law, Vonne is a member of the Ohio and Tennessee bars, and co-authored “Potential Liabilities of Directors and Officers of Health Care Organizations” published annually in the American Bar Association Health Law Section’s Health Care Fraud & Abuse: Practical Perspectives, edited by Linda A. Baumann, from 2005 to 2008. She is a former Vice-Chair of Membership for the American Health Lawyers Association In-House Counsel Practice Group, and served on the planning committee for the Health Care Transactions Program from 2016-2022. Vonne is also a Board member for the Lucy Daniels Center, a non-profit that focuses on children with behavioral needs. Additionally, she is an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., through which she participates in local community service.

An engaging & entertaining presenter, and nationally recognized as an expert in her field, she is a frequent speaker on issues related to regulatory compliance (e.g., the Stark Law, the federal Anti- Kickback Statute, HIPAA, etc.), hospital-physician transactions, physician compensation, and corporate governance issues. 

In her free time, Vonne enjoys good bourbon, good music and good trouble

Vonne Jacobs is on a mission to create an equitable world -- one person and one place at a time. A practical, no-nonsense leader, Vonne leverages her extensive expertise to provide practical, pragmatic advice to help her clients achieve their strategic goals.

As a certified transformational trainer and coach, Vonne advances equity in public and private institutions by providing bespoke DEI training for organizational leaders and helping Black professional womxn discover who they are and what they want so they can create careers (and, more importantly, lives) where they thrive. 

Vonne is also a practicing healthcare attorney. She is currently Of Counsel at Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman where her practice focuses primarily on supporting clients (including hospitals, health systems, AMCs and large physician groups) in evaluating and executing complex transactions. She also serves as a regulatory advisor, providing fraud and abuse analysis in the context of a deal, ensuring her clients remain compliant with the regulations that govern health care transactions and operations, and helping healthcare providers working in underserved communities manage their regulatory risk so they can focus on providing high quality care to those who need it most . 

Prior to launching Creating Equity and joining Hall Render, Vonne was Associate University Counsel for Duke University and Duke University Health System where she provided advice and counsel to one of the world’s preeminent health systems on a broad range of regulatory, operational, and transactional matters. Before joining Duke, Vonne spent more than a decade serving as in-house and outside counsel for a broad range of healthcare providers and companies, including hospitals and health systems, academic medical centers, long term care facilities, physician organizations and specialty care providers, primarily focused on transactional, operational, and regulatory matters.