Principal

Lisa Johnson has over 29 years of experience in a wide range of tax services.  She specializes in Individual Taxes and Planning, Estate and Gift Taxes, Partnerships, LLC’s and S Corporations.  Lisa is experienced in working with families with complex structures, small businesses, trusts, and family foundations.  Lisa maintains awareness of the current laws and proposes ideas to her clients that will be flexible enough to withstand frequent changes, and finds that her clients highly value her meticulous attention to these changes.
Lisa has been featured as a 5 Star Wealth Manager, an honorable national designation that is awarded in response to high client satisfaction. 

Principal

Jennifer Messal provides full service tax consulting and compliance, specializing in federal taxation. She possesses more than 20 years of experience in public accounting. Prior to her career in public accounting, Jennifer worked for two years at a Fortune 500 company, gaining valuable experience in corporate tax structures. Jennifer’s areas of specialization in Federal income taxation includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, estates and trusts. She values the opportunity to deliver personalized service and create lasting relationships as a trusted advisor. Her industry expertise includes retail, construction, real estate and healthcare. In the ever changing world of tax, the ability to keep up with current laws is a top priority. 

Principal

Lisa Bristow has more than 35 years of accounting experience in individual and business taxation in diversified industries. She has been a seminar leader on various tax topics including retirement plan design and administration issues. 
Lisa provides full service tax planning, consulting and preparation in all areas of taxation. Her extensive experience proves to be a valuable asset to her clients in the highly complex and ever-changing multi-state individual and corporate tax environments.

Tax Manager

Jacqueline Taxdal has fourteen years of public accounting experience. She started preparing and reviewing tax returns as a volunteer with AARP Tax-Aide while a student at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee and developed a passion for working with senior citizens. In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant, Jackie is a Certified Senior Advisor and a member of the AICPA and FICPA. Her areas of expertise include individuals, trusts, estate and gift taxes, non-profit organizations, partnerships, corporations, and IRS audits and representation. She breaks down the unique tax and financial situation of her clients into easy-to-understand pieces, providing them the knowledge to make their best decisions. She believes her most important responsibility is being the client’s trusted advisor and counts their success as her greatest achievement.

Operations Manager

With over 8 year of experience in office administration and customer service management, Amariah uses her organizational skills to ensure smooth operations of our office, assists in facilitating effective communication between our clients and staff, and overall coordination of a broad range of services that allows the firm to operate efficiently.

When she isn’t at work, Amariah loves hosting dinner parties and game nights with her husband and reading biographies of interesting people.

My Tax internship experience really solidified my classroom knowledge. and lead to greater opportunities of learning and developing analytical skills. I gained a new sense of professionalism and teamwork throughout my internship. The collaborative efforts of all the staff were both a highlight and a driving force in my success as an intern. I’m very excited to continue growing with Johnson Messal Bristow as a Tax Staff member!
-Josselyn W.

This internship provided me with real-life examples so that I could take what I learned from my accounting classes and apply it to real situations. I have excelled in my accounting classes, not only due to the application of learned principles, but also because of the extremely welcoming and patient team that I have had the pleasure to work with.. The best part of any day is getting to interact with our clients, hearing their stories, and helping them to achieve their goals; it makes the “Thank You for your help,” so much sweeter!
-Tess Z.

My internship experience was very insightful. It showed me what it is like to work in a firm and I felt like a contributing member of the team. I gained new skill, not just in tax preparation, but also in tax planning. I would recommend this internship to others because of the positive work environment and the bountiful opportunities to learn from the skilled and resourceful staff.

Cameron L.

I would, without a doubt, recommend this internship to others. Everyone has such a positive outlook and are so close that it makes you feel really appreciated and like your work actually means something. I always felt supported and like I could ask any questions that I needed to. There were always people that I could ask for guidance from and everyone was happy and eager to help.

Willow L.