Shelby Scott

She served as president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists from 1993 to 2001 and helped lead that union's merger with the Screen Actors Guild.

[4] Scott served as president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists' Boston local and was elected to the union's national board in 1981.

[2] In 1999 the union approved a constitutional amendment eliminating term-limits on the presidency, which allowed Scott to serve a fourth two-year term.

[5] In 1997, President Bill Clinton appointed her to the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters.

[2] Scott retired to Tucson, Arizona, but maintained a summer home on Cushing Island in Maine.