Thurman Jewelers

Thurman Jewelers is a family-owned jewelry store on Towne Center Drive in Louisville, part of a small local chain founded in 2005 by brothers Don and John Thurman. The business has since grown from a single location into several stores across the Kentuckiana area, including a few now operating inside Meijer stores. Today the company is run by a second generation of the family — cousins Sara and Jesse Thurman — with Jesse serving as the store's jewelry designer, gemologist, and appraiser. He's a GIA Graduate Gemologist with 15 years in the trade, and the shop's custom re-design work leans on that expertise, incorporating a customer's existing jewelry into a new setting rather than starting from scratch. Beyond custom design, Thurman Jewelers handles standard jewelry and watch repairs, resizing, and professional appraisals, and also buys gold and pre-owned jewelry directly from customers with transparent, upfront pricing. With more than 20 years in business and nearly 1,000 Google reviews at a 4.8 average, it's established itself as one of the more recognizable family jewelry names in the Louisville area, built around a mix of repair work, custom design, and gold buying rather than any single specialty.