Sela Ward joined "CSI: NY" for its final three seasons as Jo Danville, a detective who joined the CSI office after the departure of Stella Bonasera. Off-screen, Ward has been married to venture capitalist Howard Sherman since 1992; they met the year before after being set up on a blind date. "You know what Howard has that the others didn't?" she asked Parade. "He listened. He wanted to know me. I felt cherished. I was used to anger and chaos with men, but Howard is very gentle — kind, funny, even-keeled. Even before we kissed, and he's a great kisser, he had me."
Though they have supported each other for decades, Sherman revealed that Ward was initially not on board with his political ambition. "She says, 'Are you doing this for your ego or are you doing this because you want to enact change?'" he told the Clarion-Ledger. "I [was] 33. I'm like, 'I don't know; 20 percent ego, 80 percent change' ... I was falling madly in love with her, and she said, 'Well, I'm the wrong woman for you.'"
He put his political dreams on hold (until a failed Senate run in 2018), and they've been together ever since. She dedicated her memoir "Homesick" to him, writing, "To my husband, Howard, who encouraged me when I was tired, who helped me when I was weary, and who found just the right turn of phrase when I was stuck."
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