“I’ve been singing since as long as I can remember,” says Jessica Carter Altman. “I have always loved performing. I joined my first chorus when I was about six years old.”
Still, Altman’s parents urged their daughter to take a more secure career route in life. “The value of an education…was always the focus growing up from my parents,” she says. “And I always felt that a law degree gave me the power to do whatever it is that I wanted to do.” Still, for Altman, currently a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C. offices of the international law firm Gibson Dunn, music remained a powerful creative calling.
“When I was in law school, my mom asked if I would be interested in doing a duet with her at the Kennedy Center,” she recalls. “She had a show she tours every spring, and I immediately said ‘Yes!’ To perform at the Kennedy Center is such an honor, but to be able to perform with my mom made it that much sweeter. We did ‘All You Have to Do Is Dream.’”
In case you haven’t guessed by now, Jessica Carter Altman is the offspring of Lynda Carter, the renowned chanteuse and actress who first made Wonder Woman a household name, and Robert Altman, Chairman and CEO of ZeniMax Media, parent company of videogame publisher Bethesda Softworks (Fallout, Doom). read more