WIN Luncheon

Jennifer D. Scott, general counsel for the Windjam Companies, will be the speaker at the Women’s Initiative Network luncheon on Wednesday, Aug. 30, at this year’s annual conference in Salt Lake City. 

Tickets for the luncheon are $40 and are available when registering or by contacting IAAO Meetings Coordinator Rachel Mense if you have already registered. Scott is recognized as a Real Property Law Specialist by the North Carolina State Bar, having both the Residential Transactions and the Business, Commercial, and Industrial Transactions specialty designations. 

She is one of only 27 lawyers in North Carolina to achieve this distinction. She is also a licensed North Carolina real estate broker. In 2013 Scott was named to North Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s list of Leaders in the Law and in 2014 she was selected as a Woman of Justice. 

She lives in Chatham County, North Carolina, and has worked for the community as a member of its planning board and has served two terms on the Board of the Chatham County Economic Development Corporation as vice chair, representing the body on the Research Triangle Regional Partnership Board. 

She was the first female president of the Siler City Rotary Club while also leading the Chatham County United Chamber of Commerce and the Siler City Business & Professional Women’s Club as president. Scott has represented Windjam since 2008 while in private practice in Chatham County. 

Windjam Companies is a group of several companies based in Raleigh, North Carolina specializing in real estate development. 

Born and reared in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Scott earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993 and her Juris Doctor degree from the UNC School of Law in 1996. 

She started her career in the general practice of law with a firm in Pittsboro, North Carolina, and went on to work for Investors Title Insurance Co. in Chapel Hill as a title attorney. 

Scott joined a law office in Siler City as a partner in February of 1998 and took over the business as a sole practitioner that July. 

She practiced in Chatham County for 14 years. Scott has served the state of North Carolina as a speaker of the house appointee to the NC Parks and Recreation Trust Fund Authority and is serving a second term as the governor’s appointee to the North Carolina State Banking Commission