years_active birth_place article_title name occupation
1989 -- present st. louis , missouri , u.s. millicent shelton
 millicent shelton film director , music video director and television director
millicent shelton

millicent b. shelton is an american music video , television and film director .
shelton began her career as a wardrobe production assistant on the spike lee film `` do the right thing '' -lrb- 1989 -rrb- .
she went on to direct music videos for artists such as mary j. blige , r. kelly , aaliyah , cece peniston and salt-n-pepa .
her other directing credits include the motion picture `` ride '' -lrb- 1998 -rrb- and episodes of `` everybody hates chris '' , `` the bernie mac show '' , `` girlfriends '' , `` castle '' , `` californication '' , `` my name is earl '' , `` 90210 '' , `` men of a certain age '' , `` pan am '' , `` leverage '' , and `` 30 rock '' , for which she became the first african-american woman to earn a primetime emmy award nomination for outstanding directing for a comedy series for the episode `` apollo , apollo '' .
she is an alumna of princeton university and new york university 's tisch school of the arts .
