# List of American copy editors

This is a list of some notable current and former American copy editors.

## American copy editors

* Lois Bryan Adams – editor, Michigan Farmer
* Margaret L. Bailey – editor and proprietor, The Philanthropist; editor, The Youth's Monthly Visitor and The National Era
* Catharine Webb Barber – editor, Madison Visitor and Southern Literary Companion; editor and proprietor, Miss Barber's Weekly
* Melvin L. Barnet – copy editor, The New York Times
* Josephine Cushman Bateham – editor, ladies department, Ohio Cultivator
* Emma Lee Benedict – editorial staff, New York School Journal; managing editor, Scientific Temperance Journal
* Tosh Berman
* Theodore M. Bernstein – former editor of The New York Times; author of The Careful Writer, Watch Your Language and several other books on grammar and usage
* Anna Braden – editor, Presbyterian Visitor
* Florence Anderson Clark – co-editor, The Kentucky People
* William G. Connolly – co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage; member of the American Copy Editors Society executive board
* Harriet L. Cramer – editor and publisher, The Evening Wisconsin
* Nannie Webb Curtis – editor, Texas White Ribbon, the official organ of the Texas Woman's Christian Temperance Union
* Josephine Donovan
* Benjamin Dreyer – copy chief, Random House
* Mary Fels – editor, The Public: A Journal of Democracy
* Jessie Forsyth – editor, The Temperance Brotherhood, The Massachusetts Templar, International Good Templar, and The Dawn
* Ella M. George – editor, Pennsylvania W.C.T.U. Bulletin
* Hugh Hefner – worked at Fortune magazine as a copy editor before founding Playboy magazine
* Annabel Morris Holvey – editor, The Bulletin (Pennsylvania); assistant editor, The People
* Corinne Stocker Horton – society editor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
* Liv Mammone — editor of Uma Dwivedi’s poetry collection They Called her Goddess; we Named her Girl, the speculative fiction series Margins and Murmurations by author and activist, Otter Lieffe, and the literary press Game Over Books
* Annie Virginia McCracken – proprietor and editor of The Pine Forest Echo
* John McIntyre – assistant managing editor for the copy desk at The Baltimore Sun; a past president of the American Copy Editors Society; author of the blog You Don't Say of The Baltimore Sun
* Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore – dramatic editor and musical editor, Los Angeles Times
* Mary Norris (copy editor)
* Patricia T. O'Conner
* Eleanor Gould Packard
* Elizabeth Fry Page – associate editor, American Homes and Taylor-Trotwood Magazine
* Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins – editor, A True Republic
* Alice Hobbins Porter – editor, Chicago Inter Ocean
* Anna Rankin Riggs – founder, editor, Oregon White Ribbon
* Pam Robinson – co-founder and first president of the American Copy Editors Society
* Allan M. Siegal – co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage; retired
* Lura Eugenie Brown Smith – editor, Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph; co-editor and owner, Northwestern Freemason; associate and literary editor, The Masonic Tribune
* Jennie O. Starkey – journalist, editor, Detroit Free Press
* Jane Agnes Stewart – associate editor, The Union Signal; editor, Oak and Ivy Leaf and Young Women
* Susie Forrest Swift – editor, All the World, the international organ of the Salvation Army
* Sarah Katherine Taylor – editor, The Little Christian, All Nations Monthly, and Bible Faith Mission Standard
* Bill Walsh – copy editor for the Washington Post, he also authored three books about the profession of copy editing and ran a website focused upon copy editing titled "The Slot".
* Alice Willard – editor, Times (Loup City, Nebraska); managing editor, Woman's Signal Budget (London)