Nancy Cox (TV news anchor)

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Nancy Cox

Beauty pageant titleholder
Born	Nancy Jane Cox[1] August 23, 1967 (1967-08-23) (age 44)[1] Campbellsville, Kentucky
Other names	Nancy Kenny
Education	Campbellsville University Western Kentucky University
Occupation	News Anchor
Hair color	Brunette
Eye color	Brown
Title(s)	Miss Kentucky 1990 Miss Bowling Green 1990
Major competition(s)	Miss America 1991
Spouse	Tom Kenny (m. 1996–present)
Children	2

Nancy Jane Cox, (born August 23, 1967) is Miss Kentucky 1990, a television journalist and news anchor for WLEX-TV in Lexington, Kentucky.

Biography

Nancy Cox anchors LEX 18 News at 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, and 11:00. 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 the sister of Ricky Lee Cox, former member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, and the aunt of Emily Cox, Miss Kentucky 2008.

Twice Cox has won an Emmy Award for news anchoring from the Ohio Valley chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Cox and her husband, Tom Kenny, have a son and a daughter and reside in Lexington.^[4]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Kentucky Birth Index, 1911-1999". Ancestry.com. http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8788&enc=1. Retrieved December 17, 2010. 
2. ^ "Nancy Cox - Biography". IMDb. January 30, 2010. http://us.imdb.com/name/nm3674033/bio. Retrieved 2010-01-30. 
3. ^ "Former Titleholders". Miss Kentucky Organization. January 30, 2010. http://www.misskentuckypageant.com/id19.html. 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

External links

• Nancy Cox on Facebook
• Nancy Cox at the Internet Movie Database
• LEX 18's Nancy Cox

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Melanie Glasscock	Miss Kentucky 1990	Succeeded by Sheri Plambeck

Persondata
Name	Cox, Nancy
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Date of birth	August 23, 1967
Place of birth	Campbellsville, Kentucky
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