Lee Alan Shepherd was an American drag racing driver (August 30, 1944 – March 11, 1985). He began racing for car owners Reher & Morrison in 1978. The team campaigned Chevy Camaros through most of their career. The Arlington, Texas native won the National Hot Rod Association's Pro Stock championship in four consecutive seasons from 1981 to 1984. In 1983, he became the first driver to win both the NHRA and IHRA Pro Stock championships in the same year. He won twenty-six NHRA national events in Pro Stock. In 1985, Shepherd was killed while testing his car in Ardmore, Oklahoma.
At the Gatornationals, the next event on the NHRA tour, the qualifiers in Pro Stock lined up on the track before the start of eliminations in a missing man formation. The pole was left open for Lee Shepherd. Reher & Morrison did return later that year with a new driver by the name of Bruce Allen. In 2001, a panel ranked him twelfth in the National Hot Rod Association Top 50 Drivers, 1951-2000. He is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas.
| Preceded by Pete Robinson 1971 |
NHRA FullThrottle Drag Racing fatalities 1985 |
Succeeded by Blaine Johnson |