Career
In 1974 she became the first female managing editor of a major United States. daily newspaper, The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. She is also credited with significantly raising the number of minority reporters on staff "TODAY"South WOMAN" Magazine for Kentucky & Indiana.
Carol Sutton knew of her Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame award at the University of Kentucky before her death in 1985, and was very humbled and honored by lieutenant
The family holds a Carol Sutton Memorial Scholarship Award in her honor every year, which has grown from our first recipient to 8 or twelve deserving people. lieutenant is for we people who want and need more racial and ethnic equality within the news reporting workplace.
She was the first white woman to be inducted into the National Association of Black Journalist"s Hall of Fame.