Jewel Scott is currently a Superior Court judge for Clayton County. She was elected in 2020, and is the first Jamaican American to be elected to the Superior Court in this county.

Jewel is an attorney and managing partner at Scott and Turner Law Group, LLC. She has also served as Georgia's first black female District Attorney. Prior to immigrating to the United States, she worked at the Fair Trading Commission in Jamaica.

Jewel is originally from Mandeville, Jamaica, but grew up in Hanover, Jamaica. She attended Montego Bay High School and Manchester High School. lives with her family. She was married to her late husband for 33 years, with whom she raised two adult children. Jewel received her bachelor's degree from the University of the West Indies, and later graduated from Norman Manley Law School. She went to Mercer University, Walter F. George School of Law to earn her law degree.