LSUS graduates to hear Johnette McCrery Wednesday
05/12/04

Dr. Johnette McCrery, an LSUS assistant professor of public relations, will deliver the commencement address for the spring 2004 LSUS graduating class Wednesday (May 19) at the CenturyTel Center in Bossier City. Commencement exercises begin at 7 p.m.

McCrery and her two sons, Scott, 10, and Clark,8, will move permanently to the nation’s capital this summer to join their husband and father U.S. Rep. Jim McCrery (R-La.-4th), who will seek re-election this fall to the congressional seat he has held since 1988.

Johnette McCrery will join Ketchum Public Relations, the seventh largest public relations firm in the world. She will serve as a Vice President of Public Affairs and work in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office.

The popular LSUS faculty member received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989, a Master of Arts degree from LSUS in 1996 and a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Maryland at College Park in 2001. She joined the LSUS faculty in the fall of 2001.

She formerly worked as a television reporter and anchor for KTAL-TV and as a consumer reporter for KTBS-TV. While working at KTBS, she was named “Consumer Reporter of the Year” by the Better Business Bureau. She has also written extensively for newspapers and magazines in the area.