Carol Sutton

Carol Sutton was a groundbreaking women’s page journalist at the Louisville Courier-Journal in the 1960s. She became the first woman managing editor of a major metropolitan newspaper, the Courier-Journal, from 1974-1976. During her tenure, the newspaper won Sigma Delta Chi and Roy Howard awards for public service for coverage of school desegregation in Louisville. She was a winner of a Penney-Missouri Award. She was one of several women named Time magazine’s people of the year in 1975. She died in 1985 at a young age.

My article about her has been revised and resubmitted to a national journalism history journal and will come out in Winter 2010.

She is in the Kentucky Hall of Fame.