Shirley Childress Saxton

Shirley Childress Saxton is a professional American Sign Language interpreter who joined the African American a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock in 1980. Saxton, who learned to sign from her deaf parents, holds a bachelor’s degree in deaf education and is a certified member of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf[?]. When Johnson is not on tour with Sweet Honey in the Rock she teaches sign language classes and conducts workshops on interpreting music.