Sherrie McLeRoy is an independent historical scholar and writer from Aledo, Texas. Her first career, from 1974 to 1988, was as a museum administrator and curator in Virginia and Texas. Since then, she has been a writer, speaker, historian and has written or contributed to more than twenty books on the histories of Texas and her native Virginia. She was the consultant, researcher and writer for the historical exhibit at the Gladney Center for Adoption.