She organized and led the fight in Atlanta to
reauthorize the Voting Rights Act in 2005 and was
instrumental in urging Greenville County, SC to
recognize the Martin Luther King Holiday.
Today she is fighting to keep families in their
homes and avoid foreclosure. Janice and her sister
Davida Mathis host Sisters in Law on News and
Talk 1380 WAOK, a legal advice program, and they
blog at
sistersinlaw.blogspot.com. She is a member of
the Athens Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta and
serves on the sorority’s national Social Action
Commission. Janice formerly served as a member of
the Rules Committee of the Democratic National
Committee and on the national board of the League of
Women Voters of the U.S.
She is included in
several editions of the Most Influential Blacks in
Atlanta, including this year’s section featuring
Female Powerhouses. In 2009 she was named one of 25
Most Influential Women in Atlanta by Rolling Out
magazine and received the Fannie Lou Hamer award
from UFCW. In 2008, the Georgia Informer named her
one of the 50 most influential women in Georgia.
The Gate City Bar presented her its R.E. Thomas
Civil Rights Award in 2009. In 1996 she was a
Centennial Olympic Community Hero and carried the
Olympic Torch a portion of its way through Athens,
GA. Good Housekeeping Magazine named her
“One Hundred Young Women of Promise” in 1989. She
is graduate of Leadership Georgia and has received
numerous other awards.
She earned
Bachelors of Arts in both economics and public
policy studies at Duke University in only three
years as a recipient of the prestigious Angier
Biddle Duke Scholarship. Janice studied British
Politics and History at Oxford University in England
and finished law school at UGA. She was president of
her senior class in high school and was a National
Merit finalist and a National Achievement scholar.
Janice is an active member of Chestnut Grove Baptist
Church where she tutors the SAT and serves on the
land and building committee. She lives with her
husband and adult son in Bogart, GA.
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