Our Team

Clear Landing, Inc. was founded in 2024 by a group of heirs’ property professionals who recognized a significant need for legal and financial support for families facing cloudy title inheritance issues throughout Alabama. Over the past two years, our team has traveled across the country, training hundreds of state Extension professionals and community groups through the "Understanding Heirs’ Property at the Community Level" curriculum, a program hosted by the Southern Rural Development Center (SRDC) and the Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers (SDFR) Policy Center. Through our involvement in this program, the Heirs' Property Practitioner Network, and the Alabama Heirs' Property Alliance, we decided to form a non-profit organization that would help heirs' property owners with low-to-moderate income preserve their land by providing thorough title analysis, personalized strategic plans to clear title, and estate planning - at no cost to the landowners. Over the years, our work with heirs' property in Alabama has ranged from community centers to churches, and courtrooms to classrooms. We are committed to helping families preserve their land, clear title, and prevent involuntary land loss in underserved areas.

Jacy Fisher, Esq.

Jacy Fisher is a senior associate attorney at Greg Varner & Associates, where her passion for justice shines through her tireless advocacy for heirs’ property owners faced with involuntary land loss. While the firm's offices are in central and east Alabama, Jacy zealously represents clients in courtrooms throughout the state. She has extensive experience with partition litigation under the Uniform Partition of Heirs' Property Act. Her practice primarily focuses on heirs’ property, real estate litigation, estate planning, & probate. Each year since 2021, Jacy has presented at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives' Heirs’ Property Bootcamp. She frequently travels the country with the SRDC/Alcorn team educating university Extension professionals on “Understanding Heirs’ Property at the Community Level.” Jacy serves as a JAG officer in the Alabama Air National Guard, on the Advisory Council for the Southern Risk Management Education Center, as the consulting attorney for the Alabama Heirs' Property Alliance, on the leadership team of the Heirs’ Property Practitioner Network, and the Board of Directors for Alabama Goodwill Industries. In 2024, she was a panelist at the "Heirs' Property & the Racial Wealth Gap" conference at Boston Law School, hosted by Professor Thomas Mitchell.


Dr. Ryan Thomson

Ryan is an Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology at Auburn University. He began his work around heirs’ property in the Lowcountry working the Gullah/Geechee Nation in 2017. He currently serves on the board of the GG Sustainability Think-Tank and North Florida GG Land Trust. His research on quantifying heirs’ property and policy solutions has garnered two national awards. His work has been featured on MSNBC, PBS, and the Miami Herald. Ryan can often be found traveling the country with the SRDC/Alcorn team, training professionals through the “Understanding Heirs Property at the Community Level” curriculum. He has authored reports for legal aid organizations, local court cases, and state-level policymakers to support legislative reforms addressing heirs’ property issues. He was a co-founding member of the Alabama Heirs Property Alliance (AHPA) with Tuskegee and Alabama A&M in 2022. This collaborative initiative between Alabama’s land-grant universities works through local Extension offices to provide landowners with educational materials and technical assistance to resolve heirs' property issues. In 2023, Ryan co-authored the USDA Hatch Multi-State Project (SERA-49) on heirs’ property and currently serves as its inaugural chair.

Board Members

  • Francine Miller, Esq.

    Board Member

  • Dr. Kara Woods

    Board Member

  • Dr. Portia Johnson

    Board Member