Sherry Lynn Jones was an award-winning American filmmaker.
She was born in Austin on April 21, 1948, and grew up in Shawnee, Okla. Her mother was a social worker who worked for the state, and her father was a traveling salesman who sold school supplies.
Sherry graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1970 and received a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University the next year.
She worked on political campaigns for Democratic senators Fred R. Harris (Okla.) and George S. McGovern (S.D.) before coming to Washington, launching her documentary career in the early 1970s as a field producer for Oscar-winning filmmaker Charles Guggenheim.
She later founded her own production company, Washington Media Associates.
Sherry made documentaries for CNN and ABC and collaborated with journalists including Bill Moyers, Peter Jennings, Roger Wilkins, Hedrick Smith and William Greider, typically working with them on all aspects of the reporting, script and storytelling.
Sherry Jones Cause Of Death
Sherry Jones died of cancer at a hospital in Washington on February 14, 2022.
The Emmy-winning documentary producer was 73.
She is survived by her husband Alan Stone, a sculptor and former chairman of the Washington Project for the Arts; and a brother.