Advisory Council

Judith G. Clabes has been president and CEO of Scripps Howard Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the E.W. Scripps Company, for 10 years. She started her 35 years with Scripps at the Evansville (Ind.) Printing Corporation where she established the Newspaper in the Classroom program.

She became editorial page editor of The Evansville Press and editor of the Evansville Courier & Press before being named editor of The Kentucky Post in Northern Kentucky, a position she held for 13 years. She was promoted as director of editorial development and then president and CEO of the Foundation.

Clabes has been widely published in industry publications, is the author of two books, and has earned numerous honors for writing, editing and leadership. In 2006 she was named the recipient of the Gerald Sass Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Educators in Journalism and Communications.

She is a graduate of the University of Kentucky School of Journalism and holds a master’s degree in public administration from Indiana State University. She has two honorary doctorates.