Vanessa Gallman - Editorial page editor
vgallman@herald-leader.com
(859) 231-1393
Joined paper and editorial board April 1997.
Background: Born in Charlotte, N.C., and graduated with bachelor's degree in journalism from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Career: National correspondent, Knight Ridder Washington bureau; assistant city editor, The Washington Post; assistant journalism professor, University of Maryland-College Park; metro editor, The Washington Times; assistant city editor, The Tallahassee Democrat; reporter, The Charlotte Observer.
Personal: Mother of one, grandmother of two.
Affiliations: President, National Conference of Editorial Writers; board member, Society of Professional Journalists-Bluegrass Chapter.
Honors: Several teaching and reporting fellowships; various individual and staff reporting awards in state and regional contests.
Larry Dale Keeling - Columnist/blogger, editorial writer
lkeeling@herald-leader.com
(859) 231-3249
www.kykurmudgeon
On the board 26 years and with the newspaper for 30 years. Major areas of focus: politics, state government and civil liberties issues.
Background: Born in Anderson County and grew up in Washington County. 1965 graduate of the former Willisburg High School. 1969 graduate of the University of Kentucky, B.A. in journalism.
Career: Air Force information officer, 1969-72. Reporter, Henry County (Va.) Journal, 1972-73. Reporter, Martinsville (Va.) Bulletin, 1973-74. Reporter, Bradenton (Fla.) Herald, 1974-75.
Personal: Married and lives in Franklin County.
Affiliations: Member of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, the Society of Professional Journalists Bluegrass Chapter, University of Kentucky Alumni Association and Golfaholics Anonymous.
Honors: National Headliner award for editorial writing; national Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial writing; the regional Green Eyeshade award for editorial writing; finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing; and has won numerous Kentucky Press Association awards for reporting, editorial writing and column writing.
Jamie Lucke - Editorial writer
jlucke@herald-leader.com
(859) 231-3340
Joined the editorial board in 1997, after 10 years as a Herald-Leader reporter. Areas of focus: education, energy. environment, farm policy, public health, local and state government.
Background: Born in Lexington, grew up in Morehead, educated at the University of Kentucky. Lived with a family in Greece and studied at the University of Lancaster in England on Rotary-sponsored fellowships.
Career: Worked as a reporter at newspapers in Flemingsburg, Lebanon, Elizabethtown, Owensboro, Jacksonville, Fla., Birmingham, Ala.
Personal: One daughter.
Honors: 2005 National Headliner Awards, second place, for editorials supporting Lexington's smoking ban. Green Eyeshade Awards for editorial writing, 1999, 2000, 2001.
Joel Pett - Cartoonist
jpett@herald-leader.com
(859) 231-3443
Joined paper as cartoonist April 1984. Also does video commentaries on
Kentucky.com.
Background: Born Bloomington, Ind., Sept. 1, 1953. Lived in Ibadan, Nigeria, 1959-1964. Free-lanced after college in Bloomington for nine years. Traveled to more than two dozen countries on five continents. Proudest moments include winning a college intramural golf title, skunking a former UK ballplayer in a game of HORSE, a two-second quarry-dive-Frisbee-grab cameo on national TV, and winning a Pulitzer. Maybe not in that order.
Career: Nationally syndicated, draws weekly for USA Today, and writes weekly for the L.A. Times.
Honors: Pulitzer Prize winner in 2000, finalist in 1989 and 1998; Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 1999; president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists 1999, brought the national convention to Lexington in 2004. Global Media Award for population cartoons 1995, 2007. Conducted cartooning seminars in Doualla, Cameroun, and Sofia, Bulgaria for U.S. State Dept. Won regional Emmy for television commentary.
Personal: Married, no children, just three dogs and occasionally fleas.