Nancy Cox (TV news anchor)

Last updated
Nancy Cox
Born
Nancy Jane Cox [1]

Education Campbellsville University
Western Kentucky University
Occupation News anchor
Children2
Beauty pageant titleholder
Title Miss Kentucky 1990
Miss Bowling Green 1990
Hair colorBlonde
Eye colorBrown
Major
competition(s)
Miss America 1991

Nancy Jane Cox is an American television journalist and news anchor for WLEX-TV in Lexington, Kentucky. She was also Miss Kentucky 1990.

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Biography

Nancy Cox anchors LEX 18 News at 5:00, 6:00, and 7:00. She joined LEX 18 in July 1992. She attended both Campbellsville University in Campbellsville in Taylor County, Kentucky and Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, having graduated in 1990. [2] She won the titles of Miss Bowling Green and Miss Kentucky in 1990 [3] and participated in Miss America 1991 on September 7, 1990. Cox is a sister of Ricky L. Cox, former member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.

Nancy has won eight Emmy Awards from the Ohio Valley chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and two Edward R. Murrow Regional awards. Cox has a son and a daughter and resides in Lexington. [4]


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References

  1. "Kentucky Birth Index, 1911-1999". Ancestry.com. Retrieved December 17, 2010.
  2. "Nancy Cox - Biography". IMDb. January 30, 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
  3. "Former Titleholders". Miss Kentucky Organization. January 30, 2010. Archived from the original on December 10, 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
  4. "Tiger Tracks", The Campbellsvillian: The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Campbellsville University, Vol. 9, No. 2 (November 2010), p. 50
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Miss Kentucky
1990
Succeeded by