Heather Justice is the executive director for the office of career & technical education (CTE) within the Tennessee department of education. During her tenure in the department, Heather has overseen the process for ensuring programs of study are aligned to labor market and postsecondary data and that all programs offered are vertically aligned to postsecondary institutions. She also overhauled licensing of CTE educators, created a professional development model for CTE educators, and provided robust data snapshots for CTE administrators to look at CTE concentrator achievement on academic outcomes. Prior to joining the department she worked in education as a marketing and finance teacher and before entering the education arena she worked in hospitality administration and campaign finance.