Christine Sadler

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Christine Sadler (1902–1983), born in Silver Point, Putnam County, Tennessee, was an American author, journalist, and magazine editor.

Christine Sadler received one of two undergraduate degrees from Peabody College, now an affiliate of Vanderbilt University , and her masters degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1937.

Originally a journalist for the Nashville Banner (1930-1936), she was a reporter, editor, and national news bureau staffer for The Washington Post from 1937 until 1946.

Sadler was the first woman to cover a national political convention for the Washington Post.

She was president of the Women's National Press Club, now merged with the National Press Club, early in her career at The Washington Post, and served as a member of the US Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services from 1956-1959.

While continuing to write for the Post on a freelance basis for many years, she became Washington, D.C. editor of McCall's magazine in 1944 until her retirement from that position in 1971.

She covered The White House for both The Washington Post, and McCall's, and authored two books, America's First Ladies and Children in the White House, and remained active in writing until her death in 1983.

She was survived in death by her husband, the late Richard L. Coe, theater critic emeritus for The Washington Post.