Dr. Jasmine McClendon is a Forensic and Reproductive Psychiatrist with extensive academic and clinical experience. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2010. Dr. McClendon then completed her Doctor of Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, in 2019, supported by a four-year, full-tuition scholarship. Concurrently, she earned a Master of Public Health from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in 2018.

Following her medical education, Dr. McClendon completed her Psychiatry Residency at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, from 2019 to 2023. During her residency, she gained specialized experience in reproductive psychiatry at the UC Davis Health Women’s Mental Health Clinic and provided psychiatric care and competency evaluations for the Jail Based Competency Treatment Program. Recognizing her excellence, she received the UC Davis Faculty’s Outstanding Resident Award in 2023 and the prestigious Rappeport Fellowship of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in 2022. Dr. McClendon subsequently completed a Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at UC Davis from 2023 to 2024, focusing on competency, sexual violence risk, malingering, malpractice, and fitness for duty evaluations.

Since May 2024, Dr. McClendon has been serving as a consultant for various forensic psychiatry consultant groups. She also assumed roles as a Staff Psychiatrist at the Department of State Hospitals – Patton and a Volunteer Clinical Professor at UC Davis starting in July 2024. Most recently, in January 2025, she founded her own Private Practice, where she serves as CEO and has transitioned back to UC Davis as an Associate Physician in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. McClendon holds Board Certification in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and maintains multiple advanced certifications and has written numerous peer reviewed publications.