List of 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;^[1] 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;^[2] 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^[3]
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^[4]^[5]^[6]
Annie Virginia McCracken – proprietor and editor of The Pine Forest Echo^[7]
John McIntyre – assistant managing editor for the copy desk at The Baltimore Sun;^[8] 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^[9]
Allan M. Siegal – co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage;^[10] 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".^[11]
Alice Willard – editor, Times (Loup City, Nebraska); managing editor, Woman's Signal Budget (London)

List of American copy editors

American copy editors

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