Kelli Finglass

About

Kelli Cecile McGonagill Finglass (born December 30, 1964) is an American dance director, television personality, producer, and retired dancer. She is the current director of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and a former member of the team. She appears in and is an executive producer of the CMT former reality series Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team. She also appears alongside Judy Trammell on America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on Netflix.

Born Kelli McGonagill, Finglass is from Lindale, Texas, and graduated from Lindale High School. She danced and twirled from an early age. She continued her studies in Modern Dance at Texas Christian University, where she joined Alpha Delta Pi, and received a Bachelor of Arts in International Marketing from the University of North Texas.

Finglass was a member of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders from 1984 to 1989, where she was the first cheerleader to be invited back without having to go through the customary audition process.
After leaving the squad in 1989, Finglass was hired by Jerry Jones as an assistant director to the DCC from 1989 to 1990. She then took a position in the sales…