Youth Today

Nancy Lewis

On her office wall you'll find a copy of the front page of the Washington Post, featuring Nancy's child abuse death series.

And that's why we hired this veteran scribe as our managing editor: for her tenacity and her chops as a reporter. Nancy spent 27 years covering local and federal courts, the drug war and homicide trials of young people, including a four-year stint reporting on juvenile and family matters in Washington, D.C.'s Superior Court and more than a year on a big project about undetected child abuse deaths. (She's won lots of journalism awards, but is too modest to speak of them.)

Nancy has been night-city editor, police and courts editor on the Maryland desk, and food editor of the Washington Post Extras section, writing about suburban restaurants for five years. Nancy likes to shop and garden. And cook-she has a collection of about 1,000 cookbooks and throws a mean dinner party.

Before reporting for The Post, Nancy covered the White House, the Department of Justice and Rosalynn Carter for Cox Newspapers and was the higher education and legislative reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

She resides in D.C. with her husband in a 1865-era home, where all the staff hope to visit for a dinner party!