Christine Sadler

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

Christine Sadler

Christine Sadler received her undergraduate degree 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. She was president of the US National Press Club For Women, early in her career at The Washington Post.

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

She was appointed and served as a member of The Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women in the Services from 1956 through 1959.

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

Sadler 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.

Her youngest brother, the late James C. Sadler, was an internationally renowned American meteorologist.

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