Bryana Lauren Turner and Robert Joseph Jackson Jr. were married June 20 at their Manhattan apartment. Dr. Aaron L. Turner, the bride’s brother who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated.
Mrs. Jackson, 31, is the founder and principal of Turner Divorce Mediation, a law firm in Manhattan specializing in resolving family conflicts through amicable means. She previously worked in Brooklyn for Judge Delores Thomas of the matrimonial part of the New York Supreme Court. She graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and received a law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in Manhattan.
She is the daughter of Beth C. Turner of Los Angeles and the late Dr. William L. Turner. The bride’s mother is a school psychologist. Her father was an obstetrician and gynecologist in private practice in Long Beach, Calif.
Mr. Jackson, 42, is a commissioner on the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington. He is currently on public service leave from the faculty of the N.Y.U. School of Law, where he specializes in corporate law and financial regulation. He previously served in the Obama administration as a counselor to senior Treasury Department officials during the financial crisis.
The groom received two bachelors degrees, one in philosophy from the University of Oxford and the other in finance from the University of Pennsylvania, from which he also received an M.B.A. He also holds a master’s degree in public policy and a law degree from Harvard.
He is a son of Maureen A. Jackson and Robert Jackson Sr. of Rye Brook, N.Y. The groom’s mother teaches the first grade in the Blind Brook-Rye Union Free School District. His father retired as the chief accounting officer of Scholastic, the educational publishing company in New York.
The couple were introduced in July 2013 by the groom’s childhood friend, Andrew Buzin, a New York lawyer. Mr. Jackson said that when Mr. Buzin contacted him to suggest that he connect, “He told me, in no uncertain terms: ‘This is the girl. Don’t screw it up.’”
