About Jonathan Edmond Bennett
Jonathan Edmond Bennett Lewis built his academic basis round international affairs and law. He earned a B.A. in War and Peace Studies from Norwich University in 2011, and returned to Norwich for a M.A. in International Affairs, completing that degree in 2015 with an attention in terrorism and extremism. He went directly to earn his J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2018.
Lewis started his legal career in public service. In 2016 he joined the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office as a regulation clerk on criminal appeals. The subsequent year he served as an elder law clerk within the Fifth Judicial Circuit Solicitor’s Office, dealing with research and drafting for trial- and appellate-degree things. By 2019 he was working in the solicitor’s workplace as a special assistant solicitor, gaining trial experience that would tell his later work.
Alongside prosecutorial roles, Lewis took assignments that exposed him to other components of the justice system. In 2019 he served as a staff lawyer for Richland County CASA, representing the pursuits of children in courtroom-appointed advocacy settings. That identical year he opened a personal practice, serving as principal lawyer of The Law Office of Jonathan Lewis, LLC. His early mix of appellate, prosecutorial and advocacy work shaped a practice grounded in criminal law and courtroom procedure.
Lewis has been lively in state legal circles. He has been a member of the South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers since 2020 and joined the South Carolina Association for Justice in 2022. Since 2019 he has participated in the South Carolina Bar Association Pro Bono Program, taking pro bono matters through the state bar’s organized efforts. Those memberships mirror ongoing engagement with professional peers and community legal services.
He is licensed to practice in South Carolina and in the Federal District Court for the District of South Carolina. His work combines courtroom experience from the solicitor’s workplace, appellate exposure from his clerkships, and the day-to-day demands of running a small company. He handles felony protection matters and related hearings in state and federal boards. He concentrates on felony defense and related matters.
