Forrest Herman Shuford (June 3, 1897 – May 19, 1954) was an American civil servant who served as North Carolina Commissioner of Labor from 1938 to 1954.

He was granted a leave of absence from the department from 1934 to 1935 to serve as the National Recovery Administration Labor Compliance Officer for North Carolina.

[1] North Carolina Governor Clyde Hoey appointed Shuford to fill the vacancy on September 12,[2] as he was the most senior official within the labor department.

[3] In 1944 he, at the direction of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, served as Advisor to American Governmental Delegates at an International Labour Organization conference in Philadelphia.

[5] Shuford died on May 19, 1954, at a hospital in Washington D. C. after being stricken by heart trouble while attending a conference on migrant labor.