Spotlight: JayZ's former attorney Jennifer Justice is using her position to uplift other businesswomen
is my favorite album,’” Justice now remembers more than two decades later. “They were like, ‘How do you know what that is?’ I knew every word.”
Justice is used to weather like this, having grown up in a small town just outside of Seattle. There, she was raised by a single mother who was on and off welfare for most of Justice’s young life. “We were taught that we didn’t go to college,” says Justice, who speaks quickly with lots of hand movements. But she had a rebellious streak and was determined for her life to turn out differently.
At the time, Justice says she was largely ignorant of the hardships she would face as a woman in the music industry, where female artists make up less than a quarter of all songs on the Billboard Hot 100, according to the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, and veteran label executives likehave published tell-alls describing an environment of rampant sexual harassment and toxic masculinity. But those realities hit her soon enough.
“[At Roc Nation], I had a front-row seat in watching Jay-Z help his friends and them all becoming extremely successful,” she says, adding that Jay was “intimidating and powerful and supportive and loyal, all at the same time.” Wanting to do the same for women in her community, she left Superfly and started work on The Justice Department.
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