Sherry Palmer

Sherry Palmer
24 character
Penny Johnson Jerald as Sherry Palmer
First appearance	Day 1 – Episode 1
Last appearance	Day 3 – Episode 23
Portrayed by	Penny Johnson Jerald
Days	1, 2, 3
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Family	Keith Palmer (son) Nicole Palmer (daughter)
Spouse(s)	David Palmer (divorced)

Sherry Palmer is a fictional character on the television series 24, played by Penny Johnson Jerald. She is the wife, later ex-wife, of US President David Palmer and features prominently in the first three seasons. While she initially starts out as a supporting character in the series, she later becomes an antagonist to David's administration and seeks to discredit her ex-husband in an attempt to gain political power.

Originally a recurring guest character, she was married to United States Senator David Palmer — an African-American with a chance at the White House. Although it appears their relationship is loving, David begins to doubt whether he can trust Sherry after he learns that she covered up their son Keith's accidental killing of the rapist of his sister (their daughter) Nicole, and is willing to continue the cover-up in order to protect his chance of winning the election. His suspicions are confirmed when she opens a safe and destroys what she believes to be Keith's tape incriminating Carl Webb, where the tape is a decoy placed by David Palmer. Over the course of the first season (taking place over one day, as each season of the show does), she revealed herself to be willing to do anything, including committing treason and murder, to secure her husband's presidency. At one point, she coerces Palmer's speechwriter, Patty Brooks, to attempt to seduce him into having an affair in order to feed off information from him and report it to her, as she feels her husband is not confiding in her enough. Many of her actions showed little regard for the potential consequences to those besides her husband; she reports that he survived the Drazens' attempt to kill David with a bomb in a cell phone despite Jack wanting the terrorists to believe that Palmer was dead so that Kim would be spared. She expressed no hesitation or regret for her actions, saying that she wished to protect her husband's candidacy, causing Palmer to realize that she had lost touch with what it meant to be part of a family. At the end of the day, Palmer tells her he is going to file for divorce. In addition to many personal reasons, he indicated that she was not fit to be First Lady.