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Bloodworth-Thomason grew up in Missouri and graduated from Poplar Bluff High School. Linda and friends were the founders of the Alpha Pi Phi sorority. She went on to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. She moved to Los Angeles, California, in the early 1970s, where she taught English at Jordan High School, in the Watts neighborhood.
Early life Bloodworth-Thomason grew up in Missouri and graduated from Poplar Bluff High School. Linda and friends were the founders of the Alpha Pi Phi sorority. She went on to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. She moved to Los Angeles, California, in the early 1970s, where she taught English at Jordan High School, in the Watts neighborhood. Today, the Bloodworths have relations in St. Louis, Missouri. Her cousin, Sandra Hammond, and husband, John Hammond, resided in the Chesterfield area until Sandra's death in 2008. Sandra's daughter and her children, as well as Sandra's son, still reside there.
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, founder of the Claudia Foundation, is the renowned creator and executive producer of many popular television series. She graduated from the University of Missouri at Columbia with a B.A. in English Literature. Linda's television writing career was quickly launched after she wrote an episode for the television series M*A*S*H for which she received an Emmy nomination. In 1983, she and her husband, Harry Thomason, founded Mozark Productions. Bloodworth-Thomason received Emmy nominations for the television series Designing Women, which she created and produced. Her other series include Evening Shade, Hearts Afire, Women of the House and Emeril. She is currently fulfilling her dream of helping young people with the Claudia Foundation, catering especially to young people from her hometown.
Linda Bloodworth Thomason, the acclaimed creator of Designing Women and Evening Shade, has written more than two hundred episodes for network television. She has been nominated for numerous Emmys and is the recipient of the Lucille Ball Award from Women in Film and the Eleanor Roosevelt Freedom of Speech Award. She is currently writing and directing her first feature film and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, director Harry Thomason.
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