Gail Boyd is President of Gail W. Boyd, P.C., an entertainment law firm, and Gail Boyd Artist Management, a wholly owned company of the law firm. She is a graduate of De Paul University and De Paul University School of Law. She was a founding partner in Boyd, Staton and Cave, the first African American female law firm in New York. Gail has been involved in entertainment law since 1976.
She has been involved specifically in music with a specialty in jazz since 1979. Gail presently serves on the Boards of the Pan African Center for Empowerment, the Martin Luther King/Coretta Scott King Memorial and the North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents (NAPAMA). In October 2019, she was elected President of NAPAMA. She is the former Vice Chair of the Entertainment, Sports, and Art Law Committee of the National Bar Association.
She also chaired the Entertainment, Sports, Art Law Committee of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association and served as a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Entertainment Law. She is a former board member of the International Women in Jazz. She served as a member of the Jazz Jam Committee of the National Association of Recording, Arts & Sciences.
She served on the Board of WBGO FM Radio in New York as well as the Noel Pointer Foundation. For nearly 20 years, she served as Chair of the Board of Brooklyn Legal Services.