JB (Judy) Sapp

JB (Judy) Sapp: An Engineering Rock Star

Moral Hazard: The South’s First Out Lesbian Band

J B Sapp holds moral hazard poster
JB holding her favorite Moral Hazard poster, this one for a show at the abandoned Masonic temple where they also rehearsed. “We found some weird shit there!”

JB (Judy) Sapp grew up in Baldwin, Florida, a little town near Jacksonville, Florida. After earning a broadcasting degree at the University of Florida in 1974, she worked as a sound engineer for the CBS television affiliate in Atlanta, Georgia. They sent her back to engineering school to get her first-class FCC (Federal Communications Commission) license.
In 1980, when cable deregulated, JB began a freelance career that soon moved into producing a wide range of sporting events like the Super Bowl and the World Series. She worked as a contractor doing audio engineering for IBM for about fifteen years. Around 2006, she went full-time as a television producer with Disney and retired in 2016.

Music has always been part of JB Sapp’s life, from playing in her school band, to jamming with lesbian-feminist activists in university in Gainesville, Florida. During her Atlanta years, she played bass guitar for the theatrical rock band Moral Hazard. The only band member with a house with a garage, JB often provided rehearsal space as well as expertise in audio engineering.