Colleen McCain Nelson
Nelson grew up in Salina, Kansas. She was editor of the Tripodium newspaper at Salina High School South and won a national award for excellence in feature writing in 1991. She studied at the University of Kansas, where she was editor of The University Daily Kansan. She was a reporter for The Wichita Eagle and Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She was columnist for The Dallas Morning News. She was the White House reporter for The Wall Street Journal.