Janine Sherman Barrois

Janine Sherman Barrois is an award-winning writer/producer. Currently, she is the showrunner and executive producer of TNT’s Claws, a dramedy starring Niecy Nash.
Barrois previously spent five years as an executive producer on the hit CBS series Criminal Minds. Prior to that, she was an executive producer on ER. Barrois got her start on Lush Life, where she was placed after participating in the Warner Bros. Writers Workshop.
In 2014, Barrois won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for her work on the Criminal Minds episode entitled “”Strange Fruit.”” Her writing has previously been nominated for six Image Awards and a Humanitas Prize. She is active in the WGA and sits on the board of their PAC. Janine also serves on the board of the William H. Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to giving scholarships to contemporary African-American artists. Barrois graduated from Howard University.