Cherilyn Crowe has been named the director of communications for the Baptist Joint Committee.

Crowe joined the BJC staff in 2009 as the associate director of communications. She succeeds Jeff Huett, who became the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s associate coordinator of communications and advancement in Atlanta.

A native of Fort Payne, Ala., Crowe came to the BJC after spending nearly a decade producing television news at the NewsChannel 5 Network (WTVF-TV) in Nashville, Tenn. As senior producer for the station’s cable channel, she covered elections, political debates and trials, and she led other special projects.

A journalism and mass communications graduate of Samford University, Crowe was named the school’s broadcast student of the year in 1999. She later earned a Master of Liberal Arts and Science degree from Vanderbilt University.

Crowe is a member of First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tenn., and attends National Community Church in Washington, D.C.

From the July/August 2013 Report from the Capital. Click here for the next article.