Martha Williamson (born 1955) is an American television producer and writer, best known as the head writer and executive producer of the long-running hit CBS television series Touched by an Angel.[1]
In 1994, she became the Executive Producer of Touched by an Angel. Two years later, when Promised Land premiered in 1996, she became the second woman to simultaneously produce two American television dramas.[3]Touched by an Angel was nominated for nine Emmy Awards and was inducted into the Museum of Television and Radio Hall of Fame. It has been translated into more than sixty languages and continues to be broadcast around the world.
Williamson later became the host of A Touch of Encouragement on Beliefnet.com.[4]
Her awards include the Freedom Works Award from the U.S. Congress, the Edward R. Murrow Responsibility in Television Award, the Producers Guild Nova Award, the Templeton Prize, as well as honors from the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, the Salvation Army, and Catholics in Media.[citation needed]
In 2003, she was appointed to the President's White House Council on Service and Civic Participation.[5]
She was named in 2007 by her publisher as one of the "12 Most Powerful Christians in Hollywood".[6]
Raised Methodist, Williamson later became a born again Christian; as of a 1996 Los Angeles Times interview, she attended a Baptist church in Pasadena, California.[3] In the same profile, she rejected characterizations of her work, particularly Promised Land, as ideologically conservative, saying "Why should family programming suddenly be the sole property of the Christian Coalition or the silent majority or whatever? [...] Jesus was the most liberal guy you'd ever meet, you know?"[3]
In 1998, Williamson married Jon Andersen.[2] The couple adopted two daughters from China.[2]
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