Former Lexington TV news anchor Nancy Cox inducted into Ky. Broadcasters Hall of Fame
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- Nancy Cox was inducted into the Kentucky Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2025.
- Cox anchored at WLEX for 31 years, earning eight Emmys and two Murrow awards.
- Fellow 2025 inductees include Chris Allen, Jeff Nalley and the Hoover family.
Former Lexington news anchor Nancy Cox has joined the ranks of journalism greats including White House correspondent Helen Thomas, gonzo journalism creator Hunter S. Thompson and Cincinnati news anchor Nick Clooney.
Cox was inducted into the Kentucky Broadcasters Association’s Mic Hall of Fame last weekend.
In introducing Cox at the ceremony, Merry Ewing, the executive director of the Ohio Valley Emmy awards, said “I remember Nancy near tears as she described flooding in Eastern Kentucky, or driving to the Old National Bank shooting. However, when she went on the air, the stories were delivered with gravitas, making sure her viewers had all the facts and angles.”
Cox said in a statement that she is “extremely overjoyed and grateful” for the honor.
“I can’t think of a better way to cap off a career I always wanted and truly loved for more than thirty years,” she said. “As I said in my acceptance speech, nothing I’ve ever done or hope to do would have been possible without my wonderful parents and family.”
Cox grew up in Campbellsville in a family of 10 children, and she said her parents put eight of them through college.
She was crowned Miss Kentucky in 1990.
Cox spent 31 years as a reporter and anchor at WLEX in Lexington. During that time, she won eight Emmys and two Edward R. Murrow awards.
Cox retired in 2023, and the following year married Justin Galli.
Cox said she and her husband are spending this summer in Dutchess County, N.Y.
“We also spend time in Kentucky, and in Florida where he works in the winter,” she said. “I’m enjoying a slower pace of life while working on some things I never had time for in the past.”
Other inductees into the KBA’s Hall of Fame this year included Chris Allen, weather chief at News40 WNKY in Bowling Green; Jeff Nalley, a radio broadcaster who covers agriculture at Cromwell Radio Group in Owensboro; and the Hoover family, who were honored for a legacy of public service and radio broadcasting at WJRS in southern Kentucky.
