Ivie Lewellen Clay

Background

Clay was born on October 15, 1957 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States; the daughter of John Marshall Lewellen and Wilhelmina (Epps) Lewellen.

Education

Clay received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Fisk University in 1979.

Career

Clay became a columnist for Arkansas Democratic-Gazette in 1979. A year later she took a position of a manuscript editor of C. V. Mosby Company. Then in 1981, Ivie became a reporter and editor of St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Also she served as an assistant director of publication "Sporting News" from 1987 to 1990.

In 1991, Clay was appointed a senior information specialist at the University of Missouri. Since 1995 she has been a manager of committee at St. Louis Development Corporation.

Membership

Clay is a member of National Association of Black Journalists and Alpha Kappa Alpha.

Connections

On January 24, 1992 Ivie Clay married William Lacy Clay Jr. They have a child.

Father:

John Marshall Lewellen

Mother:

Wilhelmina (Epps) Lewellen

Spouse:

William Lacy Clay Jr.

child:

Carol Wilhelmina Clay