Katie Sherrod

KATIE SHERROD is an independent Fort Worth journalist. She received the Dallas Press Club Award for her 2001 documentary, "Freedman's Cemetery Memorial," and the Exceptional Media Merit Award from the National Women's Political Caucus. Inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame in 1987 for outstanding contributions in communications, Sherrod was named one of Fort Worth's Outstanding Women in 1988 and Texas Woman of the Year in 1989.