Justine Boyd

Justine Boyd has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) of Greater Atlanta for the past six years.

Justine prominently serves on the board of the Atlanta Housing Authority (Vice Chair).

She chaired the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections. She is a former board member of the UGA College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences Advisory Board (Chair); Women Looking Ahead Magazine; Atlanta Women’s Network; the Coalition of 100 Black Women Advisory Board (Chair);

Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Boy Scouts of America Atlanta Area Council; the Georgia 4-H Foundation; Kwanis; the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau; the Dekalb Convention and Visitors Bureau; and was appointed by Secretary of State Cathy Cox to the Georgia Voting Commission in 2002. She is a lifetime member of the NAACP, the APEX Museum, the Atlanta Business League, and a Junior League sustainer.

Justine has received numerous leadership accolades as shown in the sidebar at right.

Justine is past president of the Atlanta Fulton County League of Women’s Voters. Among her achievements as president, she created and co-sponsored the renowned Fireside Chats with WSB-TV and in 2002 formatted one of her innovations: Atlanta Women Speaks, an exciting book that encompasses a collection of speeches by some of Atlanta’s most prominent women.

In 2003, Justine was selected in a nationwide search to be one of the 63 emerging U.S. Leaders to participate in the German Marshall Memorial Fellowship in Europe, studying transatlantic economic, political, and social issues. Justine is a graduate of Leadership Georgia, Leadership Atlanta, and the Regional Leadership Institute.

Justine formerly served as Assistant General Manager for External Affairs for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) and County Clerk for the Fulton County Board of Commissioners. She received a bachelor degree in English from Georgia State University, and is a member of Zion Hill Baptist Church in Atlanta.