Biography
Merri D. Howard is a television producer and production manager. She began her career working as a second assistant director on MacGyver (1985) under the name Merri Howard-Gorrin, later serving as first assistant director on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). She advanced through production roles on the series, including unit production manager and line producer, before receiving producer credit from 1991 to 1994.
Howard continued as a producer on Star Trek: Voyager (1995) and supervising producer on Star Trek: Enterprise (2001), contributing to the franchise for 17 years. Subsequent credits include producer and co-executive producer roles on Cold Case, Scandal, The Morning Show (2019), Little Fires Everywhere (2020), Your Place or Mine (2023) and The Last Thing He Told Me (2023). She has received Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Drama Series (Star Trek: The Next Generation, 1994) and Outstanding Limited Series (Little Fires Everywhere, 2020).
