{"id":119244,"date":"2026-02-01T20:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119244\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T20:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:42:31","slug":"jefferson-parish-infrastructure-official-sharell-chatman-unveiled-as-2026-zulu-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119244\/","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson Parish infrastructure official Sharell Chatman unveiled as 2026 Zulu Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) &#8211; Sharell Monique Chatman was unveiled Sunday (Feb. 1) as the 2026 Zulu Queen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chatman, an infrastructure planning official with Jefferson Parish, made her entrance by leading a second line parade inside Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chatman is a lifelong resident of Jefferson Parish. She graduated from Xavier University Preparatory High School before obtaining dual undergraduate degrees in industrial engineering technology and sociology at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. Chatman then completed a master\u2019s degree in computer engineering at Colorado State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She now holds a key position within the Engineering Department of Jefferson Parish government, where she is responsible for infrastructure planning and process optimization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Selected by King-Elect Zulu 2026 Dr. Ron Tassin, Chatman is set to ride as the Zulu Queen on the Feb. 17 Mardi Gras parade through New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This year\u2019s queen is the daughter of Tyrell and Cynthia Chatman, and the granddaughter of the late Adam and Audrey Tassin Sr., and Bobby and Gloria Chatman-Peters Sr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/02\/01\/jefferson-parish-infrastructure-official-sharell-chatman-unveiled-2026-zulu-queen\/mailto:WVUE-digitalcontent@gray.tv\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a> to report it. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Subscribe to the Fox 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3ijTadOgOLbGWGC1rRy9lA?sub_confirmation=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WVUE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) &#8211; Sharell Monique Chatman was unveiled Sunday (Feb. 1) as the 2026 Zulu Queen. Chatman,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-119244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}