Bruce jackson bio
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Bruce jackson bio
From housing project childhood to managing $20B for Microsoft, Bruce Jackson has lived it
It’s hard to imagine a more surprising path to becoming a top corporate lawyer than the one taken by Bruce Jackson. Raised in a Manhattan housing project by a single mother, he attended a failing high school and struggled to catch up at Hofstra, as the first in his family to attend college.
Beginning at age 10, he was periodically hauled into a police station on false or trumped-up charges, and more than once spent time in jail for “driving while Black.”
In "Never Far From Home," his memoir published by Simon & Schuster in February, Jackson, who moved to Montclair in 2019, credits his success to the support of his mother, aunt and grandmother, who motivated him to never give up, for the good of the family.
At Microsoft, Jackson, 60, is Associate General Counsel and Managing Director of Strategic Partnership out of the office of the President, managing a team of 20 attorneys responsible for