Terri Sterling Blog

Terri H. Sterling, APR, has 31 years experience in public relations, marketing, advertising and communications. She has managed a broad variety of marketing and marketing research projects, including transit, development, construction and real estate, retail, not-for profits, hospitals and health care, assisted and retirement living and public policy issues.

Sterling has worked throughout her career in marketing, advertising, communications, community relations, public relations and marketing research. She is accredited by the Public Relations Society of America, and is a member of the Qualitative Research Consultants Association and the American Marketing Association.

Sterling is the founding President of Rutherford CABLE, the first chapter of the highly successful 30-year-old Nashville CABLE, a 500-member organization providing personal and professional development for women. CABLE means "connecting women and opportunity." Rutherford CABLE, in its first year, already has more than 90 members and is growing daily.

Sterling is also a founding member of the Board of Directors of Rutherford Books from Birth, a not-for-profit program of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library and the Governor's Books from Birth Foundation. Books from Birth provides free books to children every month --- 60 in total --- from birth to age 5.

Experience

• 1989 to present Principal, Sterling Communications (established in Tulsa, OK (1989) and moved to Murfreesboro, TN (1995)
• 1982 to 1989 Public Service Co. of Oklahoma (corporate communications, marketing, consumer affairs)
• 1978 to 1982 Holiday Inns, Inc. Public Relations (internal communications)

Education

• The University of Memphis
• Bachelor of Arts in Journalism