Gladys Josephine Byram Shepperd (June 1, 1902 – August 5, 1985) was an American educator, writer, and clubwoman, and the fifth national president of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

In 1923, she read the Emancipation Proclamation at a Memphis event marking the 60th anniversary of its publication.

[5] She was the fifth national president of Delta Sigma Theta, serving as the sorority's leader from 1931 to 1933.

[7] Shepperd wrote a biography of civil rights leader Mary Church Terrell, published in 1959.

[9][10] In 1966, she spoke at the dedication of the Mary Church Terrell Memorial Research Library in Washington, D.C.[11] In the 1960s she was appointed by Spiro Agnew to the Gubernatorial Study Commission on Maryland Folklife.