Debra Martin Chase

Debra Martin Chase (born October 11, 1956) is a Hollywood producer and former lawyer who was named by Savoy magazine in August 2003 as one of the 100 most influential African Americans in the United States and by Black Enterprise magazine in 2007 as one of the Top 50 Powerbrokers in Hollywood. Chase is the first African American female producer to have a solo producing deal at a major studio. Chase is also a two-time Emmy nominated television and film producer. Chase was born in Great Lakes, Illinois but moved to Pasadena, California as a child. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1977 and J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1981, where she met her husband, whom she later divorced in the late 1980s. Working as a film...