Nancy Jane Cox is an American television journalist and

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for WLEX-TV in Lexington,

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. She was also

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1990.

Biography

Nancy Cox anchors LEX 18 News at 5:00, 6:00, and 7:00. She joined LEX 18 in July 1992. She attended both

Campbellsville University Campbellsville University (CU) is a private Christian university in Campbellsville, Kentucky. It was founded as Russell Creek Academy and enrolls more than 12,000 students. The university offers associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees. In 2 ...

in Campbellsville in Taylor County, Kentucky and

Western Kentucky University Western Kentucky University is a public university in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It was founded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1906, though its roots reach back a quarter-century earlier. It operates regional campuses in Glasgow, Elizabethtow ...

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, having graduated in 1990. She won the titles of Miss Bowling Green and

in 1990 and participated in Miss America 1991 on September 7, 1990. Cox is a sister of Ricky L. Cox, former member of the

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. Nancy has won eight Emmy Awards from the Ohio Valley chapter of the

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and two Edward R. Murrow Regional awards. Cox has a son and a daughter and resides in Lexington."Tiger Tracks", ''The Campbellsvillian: The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Campbellsville University'', Vol. 9, No. 2 (November 2010), p. 50

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