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Judy Clabes, 59, is president and chief executive officer of the Scripps Howard Foundation, the philanthropic arm of The E.W. Scripps Company.
Prior to assuming executive responsibilities for the Foundation, Clabes was editor of The Kentucky Post for thirteen years and editor of The Sunday Courier and Press in Evansville, Ind., for five years and a trustee of the Foundation. Her 30 year career with Scripps began at The Evansville Press. She was a syndicated columnist for Scripps Howard News Service and has published numerous articles in professional and general circulation publications.
Current professional affiliations include membership in the American Society of Newspaper Editors, which she served as a two-term board member, a member of the founding board for Forward Quest of Northern Kentucky, a member of the founding Board of Governors for the Metropolitan Club, a trustee of New York City-based Seedco Foundation, and a member of the boards of the Northern Kentucky Convention Center, Huntington Bank, the Northern Kentucky Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, the NAA Foundation, and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.
She was elected to both the University of Kentucky Hall of Distinguished Alumni and the University of Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame. Among her numerous honors, she received the Distinguished Service to the First Amendment Award from the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English in 2002, the Lewis B. Owns Award for Community Service from the Kentucky Press Association in 2000, the Lincoln Award from Northern Kentucky University in 1996, the Frontiersman Award from the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce in 1993, and the Kentucky Press Women Outstanding Communicator award in 1990, and was named a Cincinnati YWCA Career Woman of Achievement in 1986. PROUD magazine recognized her as an “Ambassador of Diversity” in 2001.
Clabes holds a bachelor’s degree in English and journalism from the University of Kentucky and an M.P.A. from Indiana State University. She also received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Southern Indiana and an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Thomas More College (KY).
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