Shelby Scott, the former president of AFTRA who helped spearhead the 2012 merger of SAG and AFTRA, has died. She was 86. Scott, a longtime television news broadcaster, served as AFTRA’s national president from 1993-2001.
She was a member of the “Group for One Union” of SAG and AFTRA leaders who spearheaded the 2012 merger effort and co-led a merger workgroup, one of only ten elected leaders to do so.“In front of the camera, Shelby Scott’s career spanned decades and broke barriers.
But it is for her work off-camera as a dedicated union leader that we at SAG-AFTRA will always be most grateful,” said SAG-AFTRA national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland. “As AFTRA national president for eight years, and a board member for many more, as a trustee on the AFTRA Health and Retirement Funds, and through her foresight in working to merge SAG and AFTRA, Shelby’s legacy is profound, and she will be deeply missed.”Over the course of her long broadcasting career, she was awarded United Press International’s Tom Phillips Citation for Excellence in Broadcasting, the William F.
Horner Jr. Award from Suffolk University for Excellence in Journalism, and was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcast Hall of Fame in 2008.Scott began her career as traffic manager for KIRO-TV and radio in her hometown of Seattle, before becoming an on-air reporter, writer, film editor and documentary producer for the station.
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